{"podcast":{"title":"FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev","slug":"fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","podcast_index_feed_id":7267639,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1581221/s/197927.rss","website_url":"https://www.narativ.org/s/fivestack-w-dean-and-zev","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1581221/s/197927/9d2ef4222bc8f33dd53a7a53a92e33bd.jpg","author":"D. Blundell and Z.Shalev","episode_count":272,"summary":"The Top 5 stories of the moment with Canada's #1 Shock Jock Dean Blundell and Former CBS News executive producer Zev Shalev.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T10:18:34.994558+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639"},"episode":{"title":"FiveStack: SCOTUS Hands Trump the Government","slug":"fivestack-scotus-hands-trump-the-government","published_at":"2026-06-30T20:49:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/fivestack-scotus-hands-trump-the-government","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/fivestack-scotus-hands-trump-the","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204316618/79a4a0694b3ac04a4de55ce4c8adbb4d.mp3","summary":"Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. In forty-eight hours the Supreme Court closed its term and rewrote who runs the government. Six to three, again and again — a number that tells you how fixed this Court has become. It gave Donald Trump the agencies, opened the money spigot, and let the states decide who counts as a girl. Then it drew exactly two lines it would not let him cross: it would not erase the Fourteenth Amendment, and it would not hand him the Federal Reserve. On Tuesday’s Fivestack, Zev counted the five rulings down — least significant to most — with guest Anne P. Mitchell, the Stanford Law professor and federal-law author who writes Notes from the Front . (Dean Blundell was out sick; Mitchell stepped in at short notice.) What follows is the countdown, the words the justices actually wrote, and the impact measured in numbers. 5️⃣ The Court Lets the States Decide Who’s a Girl For three years Lindsey Hecox fought Idaho’s law to try out for the Boise State women’s track team, and a West Virginia middle-schooler, Becky Pepper-Jackson, fought to stay on her school squad. On June 30 the Court ended both fights at once, upholding state bans on transgender girls in girls’ and women’s sports. Kavanaugh wrote it. The vote was 6–3. Mitchell put her finger on the move that should trouble even people who welcome the result: the Court resurrected “separate but equal.” A century of race cases held that separate is inherently unequal. Here the majority says the opposite — that limiting girls’ teams to “biological females” is “substantially related” to an important government interest, and so it stands. The ruling leans on the meaning of “sex” when Title IX passed in 1972, before the country was having any co…","meta_description":"Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. In forty-eight hours the Supreme Court closed its te…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3512,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/episodes/fivestack-scotus-hands-trump-the-government/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/fivestack-scotus-hands-trump-the-government.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}