SCOTUS Rulings Day 2: Birthright, Big Money, and Trans Athletes

SCOTUS Rulings Day 2: Birthright, Big Money, and Trans Athletes

The Court's last day of the term, and they emptied the clip. Birthright citizenship survives. Campaign finance gets gutted. Trans girls get banned from girls' sports. One win, one robbery, and one where I break from my own side and tell you why. I read every page so you don't have to. Real case for and against all three, then a Reality Check on what these rulings actually do to this country. Spoiler: the one nobody's talking about is the one that's going to cost you the most. Cases: Trump v. Barbara. NRSC v. FEC. The Idaho and West Virginia sports cases. Thomas cited Dred Scott thirty-one times. In 2026. We get into it. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast]. TikTok: tiktok.com/@robin_wstd [http://www.tiktok.com/@robin_wstd]

SCOTUS Rulings Day One: Trump Didn’t Become King. SCOTUS Became His Landlord.

Today was not “Trump becomes king.” That’s too simple, too tidy, and frankly too flattering to the man currently dry-humping a football he doesn’t realize is on a leash. On this episode of We Saw the Devil, Robin breaks down the Supreme Court’s decision day and the story most of the coverage is already getting wrong: Trump did gain power, yes. But the Court gained something bigger. It kept the keys. The centerpiece is Trump v. Slaughter, where the Supreme Court torched a ninety-one-year-old rule protecting independent agency officials from being fired just because the president finds them annoying, inconvenient, or insufficiently obedient. That decision did not just weaken the FTC. It cracked open the entire independent-agency structure and dragged the unitary executive theory out of the Federalist Society basement and into the law of the land. But the real twist is this: the Court did not simply hand Trump a crown. It handed him a lease. From Trump v. Cook, where the Court blocked his attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook for now, to the mail-in ballot ruling, to E. Jean Carroll’s surviving verdict, to the Medicaid work requirement lawsuit, the pattern is the same. The Court is not retreating. It is positioning itself as the final landlord of the executive branch. Trump got more power. The Court kept control. This episode covers: * The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Slaughter * The end of the ninety-one-year protection from Humphrey’s Executor * Why independent agencies like the FTC, FCC, SEC, and NLRB are now in danger * The unitary executive theory and how a once-fringe legal idea became majority doctrine * Why Trump v. Cook is not the clean “Trump loss” people want it to be * How the Court protected Lisa Cook while keeping the door open for future Fed fights * The mail-in ballot ruling and why the win still comes with a warning label * E. Jean Carroll’s verdict surviving Trump’s latest appeal * The new Medicaid work requirement fight and how bureaucracy becomes a weapon * Sotomayor’s dissent, “chaos will follow,” and the undefined exceptions that give the Court even more power * What is still coming tomorrow: birthright citizenship, transgender athlete bans, and campaign finance Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast]. TikTok: tiktok.com/@robin_wstd [http://www.tiktok.com/@robin_wstd]

Thanks, Daddy Trump...For Nothing

Y'all. Wednesday was not a weird day for this administration. It was a normal day, and that is the whole problem. Donald Trump canceled a bipartisan housing bill that would have lowered rent for millions of people. He killed the signing ceremony hours before it happened because he wants Congress to pass the SAVE Act first. That is voter suppression dressed up as a national emergency. He is holding your housing relief hostage. And his own supporters are in the replies typing thank you, daddy like that is a normal response to a man torching your rent relief. Same day he got into a screaming match with a Republican senator, called him a lunatic, then asked Congress for another eighty seven point six billion dollars for his Iran war that nobody voted for and that even Tucker Carlson is now calling him weak over. He threw himself a Ferris wheel party on the National Mall for America's two hundred fiftieth birthday while the Reflecting Pool stayed green behind him. The Supreme Court handed him a win that makes it easier to strand asylum seekers in danger over a technicality about which side of an imaginary line their toes are touching. My home state of Tennessee put up a granite headstone for fetuses on the Capitol lawn while ranking forty seventh in the country at keeping actual mothers alive. And the Democrats spent the week calling the candidates their own voters are actually excited about dirtbags. This episode goes through every receipt. The housing bill hostage situation. The court losses that forced him to Plan B. The Iran war bill. The self inflicted birthday party. The Supreme Court rulings that will get people killed. Tennessee's monument to control. And why the Democratic establishment is more afraid of its own base than it is of any of this.  Let's go.  Keywords: Trump housing bill, SAVE Act, voter suppression, thank you daddy, MAGA replies, Iran war funding, Supreme Court metering, asylum seekers, border policy, Tennessee maternal mortality, Monument to Unborn Children, Democratic socialists, John Fetterman, dirtbag left, democratic socialists primaries, Trump fitness, Reflecting Pool green, America 250, JD Vance, presidential chaosSupport the show with no ads and no sponsors at patreon.com/wesawthedevil. Five bucks a month keeps it independent and feral.Follow @wesawthedevil  on Twitter and Facebook, @wesawthedevilpodcast on Instagram, and find me at @robin_wstd  on TikTok and Instagram. Everything lives at wesawthedevil.com. Links in the notes.Take care of each other. I'm Robin. I'll see you next time. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast]. TikTok: tiktok.com/@robin_wstd [http://www.tiktok.com/@robin_wstd]

Tucker Carlson Quit, the Senate Hates Him, and the Pond Won

This was not a normal bad week. This was the week a bunch of people who spent years pretending the emperor had clothes all looked up at the same time and went, oh no. We open where the country opened: a rotting reflecting pool. A no-bid, $14.5 million renovation that bloomed bright green algae and peeled its custom "American Flag Blue" paint into the water, fixed with hydrogen peroxide that made it worse, then sold to the public as sabotage. Box cutters. A 350-foot slit that grew sixty feet mid-sentence. Five arrests over a pond. From there it only gets worse for him. Three federal courts ruled against this administration in a single Monday, on voter data, food assistance, and the retaliatory subpoenas aimed at Tim Walz, where a Bush-appointed judge used the word "risible." JD Vance flew to Switzerland to sell an Iran deal and got fact-checked and snubbed by Iran in real time. An Israeli cabinet minister told a country of six million to burn, and a platform called it a public service. Tucker Carlson quit the Republican Party. The Senate openly turned on him. Ken Paxton discovered he loves IVF the same week his own party voted to ban it. And Tulsi Gabbard cleaned out her desk by lobbing one more pre-pardoned Fauci grenade on the way out. Every story this week is the same story. Botch something, refuse to own it, invent an enemy, point the state at whoever's standing closest. We connect the dots, name the systems, and separate what's confirmed from what's spin. I'm Robin. This is We Saw the Devil. Go read the ruling. Page one, it's laughable. Keywords: political comedy podcast, political commentary, news comedy, leftist podcast, progressive podcast, Trump reflecting pool, Lincoln Memorial algae, Trump meltdown, SAVE voter purge, noncitizen voting, Tim Walz subpoenas, JD Vance Iran, Ben Gvir Lebanon, Tucker Carlson quits, Ken Paxton IVF, Texas IVF ban, Tulsi Gabbard Fauci, James Comer, SNAP MAHA, Senate Republicans, current events 2026, We Saw the Devil, Robin Coleman Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast]. TikTok: tiktok.com/@robin_wstd [http://www.tiktok.com/@robin_wstd]

Donald Trump & The 3AM Presidency: Insomnia With Nuclear Codes

The most powerful man on the planet is eighty, bruised, posting in the dozens at 3 a.m., and nodding off by the afternoon. His Secretary of State looked at a video of him asleep and told Congress he was awake. Thirty-six doctors signed a warning into the Congressional Record and nothing happened. And every single person close enough to know the truth has a paycheck, a seat, or a legacy riding on telling you he's fine. This week Robin takes apart the machine built to keep you from knowing whether the guy with the nuclear codes still has a working brain. This is not armchair neurology and Robin does not diagnose anyone. The story is the concealment: who hides presidential decline, who profits, and why America has no honest way to force the truth out of people who would rather you stayed confused and polite. Not a diagnosis. A cover-up. In this episode: * Why "does he have dementia" is the wrong question, and the trap the cover-up wants you stuck in * The receipts: age, chronic venous insufficiency, the bruised hands, the aspirin, the sleeping caught on camera * Marco Rubio telling a congressional committee the sleeping man was awake * The 3 a.m. posting sprees, sundowning, and the late-night pattern his own side's doctors flagged in writing * The "perfect" cognitive test brag, and what the MoCA actually measures (spoiler: whether you can draw a clock) * 36 physicians, the Congressional Record, and the silence that followed * Who gets paid to say he's fine: staff, party, family, donors, doctors, the press * Strength theater: the parade, the tanks, and what the spectacle is really hiding * Sanewashing, or how the press launders a meltdown into a policy headline * The Biden hypocrisy nobody wants to sit next to * A short, ugly history of hidden presidents: Cleveland, Wilson, FDR, JFK, Reagan * The 25th Amendment that exists on paper and will never get used * Gerontocracy: the bigger rot underneath all of it Listen, then come find us: Website and full episode archive: wesawthedevil.com Get on the email list so the algorithm can't bury us. Support the show and unlock bonus episodes: patreon.com/wesawthedevil Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: robin_wstd Everywhere else: @wesawthedevil Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast]. TikTok: tiktok.com/@robin_wstd [http://www.tiktok.com/@robin_wstd]