It's Tuesday, May 5th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show wishing you a happy Mexican victory over the French at the Battle
of Puebla Day, also known as Cinco de Mayo.
On today's show, President Donald Trump talks about his Iran mini-war during a small business summit,
and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has beef with the meat industry.
But let's start with the Supreme Court and the supreme law of the land, the Constitution.
The Supreme Court surprised many, okay, it surprised me,
on Monday, by restoring access by mail to a commonly used abortion medication for at least one more week.
I'm going to be real with you.
I've been covering politics for a long time, and the Supreme Court is still a mystery to me.
For a body that intends to examine the law through the lens of the Constitution,
it feels like the court is kind of freestyling a lot of the time.
And in the era of Trump, a lot of that freestyling has been in his favor.
Were the framers of the Constitution prepared for a moment like this?
For a president who posts about wanting to blow other countries away?
A president who demands Congress bend to his will?
To find out, I spoke to Melissa Murray.
She 's a co-host of Crooked Media's Strict Scrutiny and author of the new book,
The U.S. Constitution, a comprehensive and annotated guide for the modern reader.
Melissa, welcome back to What a Day.