Originally published at: Roberts on Cleanup Duty as Court Prepares to Kill Independent Government Agencies
Chief Justice John Roberts scrambled around with a verbal broom and dustpan Monday, reflexively jumping into the arguments to downplay the obvious dangers his majority will soon unleash in its seemingly imminent decision to destroy independent agencies. The case stems from President Trump’s early-term bloodletting at the Federal Trade Commission (and several other protected agencies),…
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“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.”
These privileged Children of Reagan listened to all the fairy tales about government being the source of all problems, and thought they were true.
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The alleged good bones of conservative democracy looks a lot like an autocracy with periodic elections.
And if said autocracy can hold on for three generations, the people will be what you have made them.
Damn royalists.
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…expected to end with a major victory for the all-powerful presidency that the right-wing legal world has been working towards for decades.*
* Offer subject to change without notice. Some restrictions apply. Not applicable to Democratic presidents.
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While the liberals sounded the alarm, he countered that overturning Humphrey’s would not be so cataclysmic, implying that the Court would find some logically inconsistent way to protect the independence of the agencies it cares about (chief among them, the Federal Reserve).
So, the government will be constituted on the basis of a bunch of ad hoc rules enacted by this court?
Mr. Roberts seems an unapologetic advocate for pulling as much power as possible unto himself.
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Of course the irony that’s glaring to everyone but them, apparently, is that they’re doing everything in their power to create an unfettered Big Bad Government – in the form of an unrestrained, unaccountable, and totally immunized from the rule of law Executive tyrant.
They’ve taken the American Experiment full circle, right back to a king who’s above the law!
So much for Liberty…
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The Trump Wrecking Ball is being enabled and swung with greater fury by the Supreme Court, the Republican/MAGA led Senate and House of Representatives, and his supine voters.
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Gotta say, the Chauncey Gardiner-esque photo they use for Roberts is chef’s kiss!
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So, thinking ahead (we’re fucked for the present) to when a non-fascist president is in office, what happens to undo this destruction? Does the SC get reformed (more members, term limits) in order to reverse these decisions? That would take a lot of time and effort. Does the new, non-fascist president invoke her court-blessed authority to fire the oligarchic appointees and put good people in the agencies? That would last until the next Republican president. Does a namby-pamby Biden/Garland president abide by the old rules and precedents and act like the bad stuff never happened? Or do the fascists and their SC minions really believe that they can rig things so that they are the permanent rulers and will never have to worry about things? Do they really think that their rulings will not apply to their opponents?
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The Pandora box has been opened, the whole constitutional order is kaput. A revolution complete with a new Constitution will be required.
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So why stop with independent agencies? Judges, including those on the Supreme Court serve during times of “good behavior”? Who’s to say a president decides court decisions he or she doesn’t like is not good behavior and removes the judges who make them?
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Having tired of the unitary executive theory the Roberts Project 2025 Court has found the constitutional basis for its newborn Unitary Government theory. The president is the only person elected by the full body of We The People* and was meant to have complete control of the government unless overruled by both a 2/3 vote in both houses of the Legislative Branch (see: Article I, §7) and the Judicial Branch. Let it be written, let it be done.
* Subject to terms and conditions established by the Supreme Court under its authority to decide all cases, in law and equity, arising under the Constitution
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Exactly. The next Democratic DoJ needs to indict the whole Conservative side of the SCOTUS on corruption charges and have the First Circuit and a reconstituted SCOTUS led by Chief Justice Jackson, adjudicate their removal, incarceration and conviction.
The gate swings both ways and when We The People get our rightful representation and power back - these corrupt fascist fuckers will pay dearly.
The Unitary Executive is a fundamentally bad idea, but it is also a sword with TWO edges.
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The property of independence is inseverable from these agencies - full stop.
If they say you can’t have independent agencies, then you can’t have THESE agencies at all. Their authority was predicated on their independence, for fucks sake.
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Democrats need to fight like our country, our liberty, and our lives depend on it.
Because they do.
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This is coming a day after Dec 7.
The Japanese only attacked one day, and it was never as wildly successful as the GOP jihadis of the corrupted Supreme Court.
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The US, which has the hottest economy, grocery prices way down, the cheapest and best medical care, and the power to vaporize drug smugglers pretending to be fishermen, now has incredible strong press freedom. 57 is much more than 6 or 3.
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implying that the Court would find some logically inconsistent way to protect the independence of the agencies it cares about (chief among them, the Federal Reserve).
“Oops. Guess the President controls the Federal Reserve too. Our bad.”
Imagine. A Presidential tweet, insisting gold be transferred to his personal bank account. An order which must be obeyed. Followed, of course, by presidential immunity.
Naturally ending with the famous Standard Trump Dodge (STD) – I didn’t take the gold. Okay, I took it, but I’m allowed to. Okay, I’m not allowed, but I can’t give it to you…
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What is the “Is the water warm?” reference?
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Great point.
I’m not sure my Congressional representatives voted for non-independent agencies.
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