Day: June 30, 2026

The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship but Kavanaugh Shows Congress How to Undo it

We begin with today’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment based on the 1898 landmark ruling in U.S. vs Wong Kim Ark who was born in San Francisco but upon returning from a trip to China, was denied entry under the Chinese Exclusion Act. Joining us is Mae Ngai, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and a Professor of History at Columbia University. A legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism, she is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, and her latest book is The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.

Trump Claims “No Limits” to His Power As He Adds Himself to the List of Mass Murderers and Bloodthirsty Dictators He Calls “Great Men”

Then we look into Trump’s claim there are “no limits” to his power and he is more powerful than the mass murderers he admires; Hilter, Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan and Napoleon. Joining us is James Zirin, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and the host of the critically acclaimed television talk show, Conversations with Jim Zirin, which airs on PBS. He is the author of Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Courtand Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits. He is a contributing editor at The Washington Monthly and he has an article at The Hill we discuss, “Trump wants to join the list of bloodthirsty dictators he calls “great men.”

With Reality Intruding on Trump’s Malignant Narcissism, Will He Become More Dangerous as He Becomes More Delusional?

Then finally we assess how Trump’s malignant narcissism has been supercharged by becoming president for a second time without any adult supervision restraining him to the point his megalomania knows no bounds but as reality intrudes, will he become more dangerous as he becomes more delusional? Joining us is Dr. Henry Abraham, who has served as Unit Chief of the Westboro State Hospital, Director of Psychiatric Research at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston, who has also served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, and as advisor for several revisions of the Diagnostic Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. A member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, he shared in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize and is a signatory to an open letter from leading mental health professionals, “A Statement of Medical Concern about the President of the United States.”