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Both Kinds of Standards – MS NOW

From “Democracy is saved!” to “Democracy is DOOMED!” within the span of one hour.

From “Democracy is saved!” to “Democracy is DOOMED!” within the span of one hour.

Beware of investing too much emotional heft into court decisions—especially on a morning with numerous SCOTUS rulings coming out—or else you could look as foolish as the panels on Stephanie Ruhle’s new show Money, Power, Politics. The program today began with elation, when the high court ruled that mail-in votes in elections could be counted days after polls closed. We lost track of how many times the various guests declared this to be a “huge win for democracy.”

Then later in the same program, another ruling was handed down, this one granting the president certain powers to fire members of certain government commissions. This was when legal affairs expert Lisa Rubin declared the day had become “much darker.”

In the same hour, after SCOTUS ruled President Trump could fire an FTC Commissioner, Ruhle shifted from a ”win for democracy” to a day that “seems much darker than that.”Lisa Rubin then said the ruling meant policy would "fluctuate wildly from administration to administration… https://t.co/u44QnwFBaj pic.twitter.com/w77Oj5S2kj— Nick (@nspin310) June 29, 2026

In the same hour, after SCOTUS ruled President Trump could fire an FTC Commissioner, Ruhle shifted from a ”win for democracy” to a day that “seems much darker than that.”Lisa Rubin then said the ruling meant policy would "fluctuate wildly from administration to........

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