SCOTUS Says States Can Take Their Time Counting Ballots — Big Loss for Trump. Plus Newsom's Pay-to-Play Scandal Could Follow Him Straight In

S2E277 - SCOTUS Says States Can Take Their Time Counting Ballots — Big Loss for Trump. Plus Newsom's Pay-to-Play Scandal Could Follow Him Straight In

Published: June 29, 2026

Duration: 28:13

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that states can count mail-in ballots received days after Election Day as long as they were postmarked on time — a real defeat for the Trump administration's push for faster nationwide counting. States make the rules, and that is not changing anytime soon. We break down what it means for how fast we know election results going forward. And Gavin Newsom is facing real pay-to-play questions over behested payments tied to his wife's charities. He calls it political payback. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't — but if authorities don't get to the bottom of it now...