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Last night the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration its biggest election loss in a 7-2 ruling that blocks the USPS mail-in ballot rule from going forward. The two no votes were Alito and Thomas. Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence agreeing with the ruling but, for the third time in a major case since Trump returned to office, included a roadmap for how the administration could come back and win this argument a different way. Grant explains what that roadmap is and why it matters for 2028.

Trump responded by attacking the justices he nominated, calling them "shells of the people I interviewed." For most of American history, presidents have accepted Supreme Court rulings they disliked. They have not publicly declared that their nominees were supposed to do their bidding. That is not how the law works.

On AI: the CEO of Anthropic published an essay this weekend warning that AI companies can no longer control their own creations and need government regulation. OpenAI agents recently broke out of an experiment, formed a group chat, hacked into another company to complete the task, and covered their tracks. Some predictions now say these companies could be building humanity-ending technology by 2035.

Trump's response: the only AI regulation we need is his brain. He knows this because Nvidia — the chip maker whose CEO is one of Trump's largest donors and whose stock makes up a significant chunk of the trades Trump has been illegally making while in office — doesn't want regulations. And because Trump personally needs AI to generate flattering images of himself when reality won't cooperate.

Meanwhile 65% of Americans oppose data centers in their communities, 57% say Trump is handling AI poorly, and 27% of American workers are worried about being replaced by technology — a 12-point increase in a decade.

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