Today in One Sentence. The Supreme Court ruled that migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border aren’t entitled to apply for asylum until they set foot in the country; the Supreme Court allowed Trump to end Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians; a federal judge blocked Trump from using the Postal Service and Homeland Security to restrict who can receive mail ballots; Senate Republicans held a late night re-vote on Trump’s Iran war powers, this time rejecting a nearly identical measure that the Senate had approved the day before; Inflation rose to 4.1% in May – the highest in three years; and 53% of Americans say there’s grounds for Congress to impeach Trump.

1/ The Supreme Court ruled that migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border aren’t entitled to apply for asylum until they set foot in the country. The decision allows Trump to revive the asylum “metering” policy, which was first used under Obama in 2016, expanded during Trump’s first term, but rescinded by Biden in 2021. It lets border agents physically block asylum seekers when ports are deemed over capacity. Justice Samuel Alito wrote that “a guest does not arrive in a house when he knocks on the front door,” while Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the court had blessed the government’s decision to “slam the door shut” on people fleeing persecution. “More people will die,” Sotomayor wrote. “More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not.” (Politico / Reuters / NPR / Axios / Washington Post / Associated Press / NBC News / New York Times)

2/ The Supreme Court allowed Trump to end Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. In a 6-3 ruling, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the TPS law “plainly bars” courts from reviewing DHS decisions to extend or end the protections, and said Trump’s comments about Haitians were “insufficient” to show that the decision was based on race. Justice Elena Kagan, meanwhile, said “hundreds of thousands of lives will be uprooted” and accused the majority of letting DHS end protections “without the required consultations about country conditions” and, for Haiti, with “impermissible race-based considerations tainting the decision.” The ruling exposes them to possible deportation after years of living and working legally in the U.S. It also opens the door for the administration to end TPS for immigrants from 13 countries, which protects roughly 1.3 million people. (Associated Press / CBS News / NBC News / Washington Post / ABC News / Wall Street Journal / NPR / Reuters / Politico)

  • The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels. “The measure was sometimes referred to as a “vampire rule” because it required people with guns to get permission to enter, according to vampire lore, bloodsuckers need an invitation to enter a home.” (Associated Press)

  • The Supreme Court restricted thousands of lawsuits claiming Monsanto had a duty to warn consumers of alleged cancer risks from the world’s most popular weed killer, Roundup. “The justices ruled Monsanto was not required to offer a warning because the Environmental Protection Agency holds that Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, is not a cancer risk.” (Washington Post)

3/ A federal judge blocked Trump from using the Postal Service and Homeland Security to restrict who can receive mail ballots, ruling that the president had no constitutional authority to create federal voter lists or order USPS to deliver ballots only to voters on federally approved lists. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said the Constitution gives states the power to determine voter eligibility, writing that “the Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.” The ruling applies to the 23 states and Washington, D.C., that sued and prevents the administration from enforcing the provisions ahead of the November midterms. The decision is separate from Wednesday’s ruling that permanently blocked Trump’s earlier executive order requiring people to show documents proving their citizenship when registering to vote. (NPR / Bloomberg / Politico / New York Times / Associated Press / Axios / Washington Post / NBC News / ABC News / CNN / CBS News)

4/ Senate Republicans held a late night re-vote on Trump’s Iran war powers, this time rejecting a nearly identical measure that the Senate had approved the day before. While Trump claimed that the Senate had “changed its vote on Iran,” the move doesn’t rescind, supersede, or undo Tuesday’s adopted resolution that direct Trump to end the war with Iran or get Congress’s approval to continue. The symbolic reversal came hours after Trump berated Republicans in a closed-door lunch for undermining his negotiations with Iran, which included a shouting match with Bill Cassidy. After receiving a White House briefing from JD Vance and Steve Witkoff, Cassidy changed his vote to no. Tim Kaine, meanwhile, called the second vote “of no consequence” and said it “does not undo the expressed position of Congress that further war against Iran is illegal unless Congress votes for it.” Nevertheless Trump celebrated the procedural defeat, saying: This vote puts Iran on notice!” (USA Today / NBC News / Associated Press / CNN / New York Times / CBS News / Washington Post / ABC News)

5/ Inflation rose to 4.1% in May – the highest in three years. The Fed’s preferred PCE index rose 0.4% from April, while core inflation rose 3.4% from a year earlier. Personal income and consumer spending both rose 0.7%, with inflation-adjusted spending up 0.3%. (Bloomberg / CNBC / Politico / New York Times / CBS News / Associated Press / Axios)

poll/ 53% of Americans say there’s grounds for Congress to impeach Trump. The most common reason was corruption and self-enrichment, followed by abuse of power, defying court orders, and weaponizing the Justice Department. (Strength in Numbers)