After the Supreme Court released rulings on Monday, MS NOW reacted favorably to the court’s five-to-four ruling that allowed for Mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day had passed, which Money, Power, and Politics host Stephanie Ruhle called a “victory for Democracy.”
But later in the hour, after the court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter, which allowed the President to fire an FTC commissioner, the tone shifted, as Ruhle said the day “seemed much darker” than it was after the ballot ruling.
First, at the start of a short-lived phase of happiness on the channel, legal reporter Lisa Rubin called the ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee a “surprise” and read that the ruling came from the liberal justices along with Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Ruhle celebrated, “Hey now!” Then, Rubin read the court ruled to allow the “counting of ballots that cast by or on Election Day. After Election Day, they can continue to count those ballots.”
As the first SCOTUS ruling of the day was released, MS NOW praised the Court’s decision on mail-in ballotsRuhle called it a “huge win for democracy,” while Legal reporter Fallon Gallagher also joined in and said, “…this is a big win for democracy,” followed later by “this is… pic.twitter.com/o5jiCBZsWd
— Nick (@nspin310) June 29, 2026
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