welcome to the beat. we have a lot going on tonight. possible legal nightmares increasing for donald trump. you may say doesn t he already have enough legal problems, but with a top campaign lake cooperating with jack smith it is another story. george santos also back in court with a lot of problems. we begin with the wider story we were discussing with the breaking news yesterday, the war on rights waged by a supreme court that said it cared about president but only cares about some precedent. this now trump tax court is that these two rulings, businesses can now legally refuse service to lgbtq customers, ruling in favor of a web designer who said they could not, would not work on same-sex weddings. now businesses can refuse to sell products and services basically on the argument that the message matters more than the equality and nondiscrimination of their potential client base. no one he wants to go about their lives thinking if i go to this place, if i go to this restau
in a country like america this comes up and businesses and visa settings, because we are a capitalist economy. it s part of how we live. there was a scathing dissent from the bench, talking about not protected free speech. she said the court is literally putting out a notice that reads some services may be denied to same-sex consult couples by issuing what she called in effect a new license to discriminate, and the ruling condemns lgbtq people to a kind of, quote, second-class status of the marketplace. the court also went after a biting campaign promise striking down his student loan forgiveness program, saying he overstepped his federal authority. as i ve told you, we always try to give you context and all of these matters. this is an area where there is more precedent because there are always questions in every administration about presidential authority and how