In a 7-2 June 25 decision, the justices “agreed to shield Monsanto from liability over its popular weed killer, Roundup, dealing a victory to the company's new owner as it struggles to resolve thousands of costly lawsuits from people who claim the key ingredient caused their cancer,” wrote NPR. 

Media coverage framed the ruling as a victory for the agrochemical industry and the Trump administration, which carried out a multipronged effort to shield Monsanto-owner Bayer from accountability for the harms allegedly caused by its controversial product. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in February declaring glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, critical to national security, and in March, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to rule in favor of Bayer.

According to the environmental advocacy group EarthJustice, the Monsanto v. Durnell ruling could allow companies to “escape liability simply because the EPA approved their labels at some point in the past, even if the company concealed how harmful their pesticides were to people.”  

Despite widespread condemnation from MAHA advocates, many of whom have supported Trump in the past, major right-wing news networks largely ignored the ruling. From June 25, 2026, when the U.S. Supreme Court released its Monsanto v. Durnell decision, through June 29, 2026, Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel both failed to mention the ruling even once. Meanwhile, Newsmax gave the ruling only about 3 minutes of coverage across 2 segments and 1 mention in a segment about a different court case.

In one segment on the June 25 episode of Bianca Across the Nation, host Bianca de la Garza noted that the case had received “a lot of attention" from the MAHA movement and questioned whether the decision would be “letting people who believe they were sick be blocked altogether from making claims?"

Following Trump’s February executive order and in the leadup to the case, some in right-wing media joined the chorus of voices criticizing Trump’s actions to protect glyphosate producers, going so far as to declare that he is “committing political suicide.” Turning Point USA-affiliated MAHA podcaster Alex Clark told The New York Times in April that MAHA voters “feel like the Republicans lied to them, and they’re not planning on voting.”

Some other media figures have defended Trump’s characterization of glyphosate as essential to the United States’ national security and food systems. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the figure at the helm of the so-called Make America Healthy Again movement, also defended the administration's actions around glyphosate in March on The Joe Rogan Experience. 

Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream database for all original programming on Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel for either of the terms “Roundup” or “round up” or any variation of the terms “Monsanto,” “Durnell,” “weed,” or “glyphosate” from June 25, 2026, when the Supreme Court released its Monsanto Co. v. Durnell decision, through June 29, 2026.

We also searched transcripts in the Kinetiq video database for all original programming on Newsmax TV for the same terms over the same period.

We timed segments, which we defined as instances when the Monsanto Co. v. Durnell Supreme Court decision was the stated topic of discussion or when we found significant discussion of the decision. We defined significant discussion as instances when two or more speakers in a multitopic segment discussed the decision with one another.

We also timed mentions, which we defined as instances when a speaker mentioned the decision without another speaker in the segment engaging with the comment, and teasers, which we defined as instances when the anchor or host promoted a segment about the decision scheduled to air later in the broadcast.

We rounded all reported times to the nearest minute.