SCOTUS Fallout, Kean's Return to Congress After Odd Absence, New NBA Gambling Scandal: AM Update 7/1

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**Emily Jushinsky** (0:22)
Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jushinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111 It's Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 This is your AM Update.

**Maura Healey** (0:33)
This whole case came about because of Donald Trump's continued effort to politicize transgender people.

**Emily Jushinsky** (0:40)
Democratic politicians preparing their responses to a historic Supreme Court victory for girls' sports.

**Adrienne Espeyot** (0:46)
Trump tried to erase one of our nation's clearest constitutional guarantees, and he failed.

**Emily Jushinsky** (0:55)
Democrats celebrating a major Supreme Court victory on birthright citizenship as Republicans pursue new paths to restrict it through Congress.
Congressman Tom Kean Jr. ends his nearly four-month absence from Congress and reveals why he says he went missing. And a new NBA gambling scandal with a former player accused of deliberately changing his performance, so another former player and a group of betters could profit. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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**Emily Jushinsky** (2:34)
In a major victory for female athletes yesterday, the US Supreme Court ruling that states may ban so-called transgender athletes, as in male athletes, from competing on girls sports teams. The court upholding laws enacted by Idaho and West Virginia concluding those protections do not violate Title IX or the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. The Title IX portion of the decision was unanimous, with all nine justices agreeing the landmark civil rights law permits schools to maintain separate male and female sports teams based on biological sex. The justices dividing six to three along ideological lines on the constitutional question of whether those bans unfairly discriminate against so-called transgender students, with the court's three liberal members dissenting. President Trump, who made protecting women's sports a centerpiece of his campaign, celebrating the decision on Truth Social, writing, quote, Big win! The United States Supreme Court just ruled against men playing in women's sports. Wow, that takes the ridiculous situation off the table.
The ruling does not impose one nationwide policy, instead confirming that states may enact bans without violating federal law.
CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford explaining that the ruling protects state bans without requiring other states to adopt them.

**Jan Crawford** (3:52)
Twenty-seven states have these bans, more than half. Two others allow, I mean, ban it by policy. And today, the court said that those bans did not violate the Constitution or federal law, Title IX, that landmark legislation from 1972 that really leveled the playing field for girls' sports. These states were free to ban, you know, transgender athletes from participating in girls' sports, if that's what they chose to do. Now, other states, of course, like California, New York, and others, allow transgender athletes to participate, and they can continue to do that. The court made clear that they're not addressing those states. There's been some lawsuits challenging that participation. They're not deciding that issue. They're going to allow those states to continue to allow transgender participation.
The court said it's entirely reasonable.

**Emily Jushinsky** (4:46)
The decision leaving several major legal fights unresolved, including challenges to policies in California, Connecticut, and Minnesota that allow boys to compete on girls' teams. Liberal officials across the country decrying the ruling. In Minnesota, State Attorney General Keith Ellison posting to X, quote, to every transgender Minnesotan, You belong here. This decision does not change Minnesota law or our commitment to protecting LGBTQ plus people. Today's rulings remind us that defending the rule of law also means defending the rights and dignity of every person.