It's Wednesday, October 8th.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What A Day,
the show applauding the late Bob Ross for still making an impact on public television 30 years after his passing.
30 paintings by the Happy Trees enthusiasts will soon go up for auction in multiple cities to help with the cost of programming for public television stations in the rural areas hit hardest by Trump's federal funding cuts.
The auctions are expected to garner more than a million dollars.
On today's show, more terrible news for furloughed federal workers.
And the first National Guard troops sent to Chicago by President Donald Trump arrive at a nearby Army Training Center.
But let's start with the Supreme Court.
You know, those nine lifetime appointees who get to decide how we live our lives.
The Supreme Court term started on Monday, a term that,
to me, seems centered on one big, glaring question.
Can the President of the United States do pretty much whatever he wants?
Okay, yes.
The court will have to answer a few other questions, too.
On Tuesday, the court heard arguments in Childs v. Salazar,
a case focused on whether conversion talk therapy for minors is protected by the First Amendment.
And based on the questions the conservative justices asked Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson,
the attorney defending the state's ban on conversion therapy for minors,
it looks like the court's answer will be, yes.
Here's Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito questioning Stevenson.