Jon Decker previews President Trump's visit to PA to battle the affordability crisis

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And our buddy John Decker, our White House correspondent, now
joining us to talk a little bit of what's happening
in DC. We'll get to the President's schedule in just
a minute. But first, John, you spend a little time.
You say, the Supreme Court, they're here in some pretty
big cases.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now, yeah, that's right. So this case really is a
case about possibly extending presidential power, not just for President Trump,
but all future presidents. This was I was in the
Supreme Court for two and a half hours of oral
arguments yesterday. It's a case concerning the president's decision to
fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission and whether

(00:34):
that was permissible, whether that was legal, and based upon
what I heard in the Supreme Court yesterday, the Supreme
Court likely is going to give the president the power
to fire any member of any independent commission in the
federal government. So that means the FTC, the FCC. You
can go down the list. It's probably about a dozen
agencies are talking about. A decision by the Supreme Court

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will likely come out around June of twenty twenty six,
so a few months before we see that decision.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, I got to tell you there's some precedent on
this before. But it sounds like, as you mentioned yesterday,
that was then, this is now as far as what
they're listening to. And you're a member of the Supreme Court,
bar John and as an attorney, if you were one
of our justices and you're sitting in this hearing all
these arguments, based on what the arguments you heard, where
would you land on it? Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, look, you know, I think that the Supreme Court
is of the mindset that Supreme Court decision from nineteen
thirty five is long past you in terms of overturning it.
And that doesn't happen that often. That's a nearly one
hundred year old president. But I think the Supreme Court
is ready to overturn that precedent from nineteen thirty five,

(01:44):
and that was pretty clear. It's likely going to be
one of those six to three decisions those three justices
who are liberals in the minority on this particular case.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now, when you talk about the justices hearing arguments on cases,
who's doing the arguing. Who are they listening to? Is
it each each other? The person representing both sides of this.
We shouldn't do it. We should do it who's giving
the arguments.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, what we heard first yesterday was the argument being
given by the person who was the Solicitor General of
the United States. He is the Trump administration's top lawyer.
So he presented the argument for the administration, and then
after hearing about an hour's worth of oral arguments from him,
getting lots of questions and of course providing answers to

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those questions to the justices, then it was time for
the lawyer representing that fired FTC Commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, who
presented his argument to the Supreme Court. He too took
lots of questions from the justices, and that's the way
it typically happens at the Supreme Court. And then there's
an opportunity for the Solicitor General, at the conclusion of

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the arguments, for both sides to present a rebuttal argument
that's approximately five minutes in length. So that's what we
heard from yesterday in the UF Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay, good and great explanation. All right. The President's on
his way to Northeast PA today.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
What's going on is going to Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. The
Pocono's and the President will talk about the economy. The
President will talk about an issue that has really been
a very important issue in many recent elections, the issue
of affordability. The President doesn't like that word. It's just
another word for essentially talking about the US economy. But

(03:26):
it's clearly some focus for voters. We've seen this the
governor's races in New Jersey, in Virginia, the mayor's race
in New York City, that's special election in Tennessee. It
is an important issue, and it will be an important
issue likely in the mid term elections, which will happen
less than a year from now.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
All Right, very good, John Decker, our correspondent at the
White House. Thank you. John. By the way, don't forget
to check out John Decker on the iHeart Radio app.
He's there every day. It's John Decker and the White
House Briefing Room.