Originally published at: SCOTUS Skeptical Trump’s Truth Social Posts Count As Due Process - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Justice Sonia Sotomayor summed up Wednesday morning’s two-hour oral arguments on whether or not Trump could fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook in one line. “This whole case isn’t regular.” While Cook’s case isn’t explicitly about the Federal Reserve’s right to freedom from political manipulation, the court’s ruling will have resounding implications for U.S. central…
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When Sauer said the administration had followed the legal process and given Cook sufficient opportunity to state her case in public, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked facetiously if Cook’s own public presentation was to be a social media post. Sauer answered simply: “Yes.”
So all government employees have to subscribe to Truth Social, lest they miss legal “official notices” that might affect them? Soon Medicaid will institute a nutrition requirement that recipients have to subscribe to “Trump Steaks” to get their US RDA of meat.
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This administration is going after immigrants that are going through the legal process-which creates a paper trail, while DonOLD & Co can’t even fill out the correct paperwork? And who has access to Trump’s official Truth Social account and, the WH, or any other US Dept/Agency official Truth Social account?
Beside if one is relying on Truth Social to be the legal platform for announcing firings then why have any kind of HR dept.?
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The Furher prinzip developed by Goebbels says otherwise. The more direct, the more electric (literally) the connection, the more spiritual the command and the action of the people as one with the leader, is.
Donnie is operating on pure transmission power. If you removed his tweets, where is he on any stage? No where. Signing documents alone in a room yelling at Fox News.
Twitter is our radio.
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The Federal Reserve System was an attempt, after repeated financial crashes and panics in the unregulated wake of President Andrew Jackson’s shuttering of Alexander Hamilton’s Bank of the United States in 1832, to provide checks and balances in the financial system with an element of banking in the public interest.
After President Jackson’s action, the American economy experienced a financial crash or panic every 12-15 years, until the creation of the Fed, which was intended to be free from political meddling
Lisa Cook does not serve at the pleasure of the President.
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There’s no way to prove who wrote those posts, although the more stupid and unhinged they are the more likely oathbreaker traito trump wrote them.
But they can’t possibly have any standing in a court of law. Easily hacked, uncertain provenance of the actual writer at best, not to mention that that stupid social media site isn’t even a part of our government. There’s no .gov after his argle bargle ravings, so how can it have standing?
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The admission led Alito, normally a reliable vote for Trump’s agenda, to concede the administration’s handling of Cook’s case was done so in a “cursory manner.”
Oh…
That’ll leave a welt.
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There is a history of presidential meddling into Federal Reserve affairs and making things worse:
President Nixon pressured Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns to cut interest rates, and the resulting economic spurt no doubt contributed to his landslide 1972 re-election.
But the expansionary easy-money policy caused higher inflation in the following years and required painful measures, including raising interest rates to 19 percent, which slowed the economy and contributed to stagflation which required almost a decade to fix.
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If the Court does rule in Cook’s favor, there will be at least one Justice that will write a dissent - the pretzel logic will provide the blueprint for how the Supreme Court can rule for Trump in the next instance.
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Furthermore: are TS posts covered by the Presidential Records Act? Is there any evidence that Cook even subscribes to TS, let alone read this specific message?
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Well, that’s an idea: cover Troof with the PRA, require the administration to provide a copy of each signed by the Prez’nent’s hand and witnessed by two cabinet members before they are released.
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It’s also significant that the prosecution can’t produce the offending mortgage documents. An image on a Trump So-so post? That’s hilarious. Where’s the beef? The actual documents of the heinous, felonious application?
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These Justices are out to lunch. Firstly, why would they assume Cook pays any attention to Truth Social? eq entertaining the idea that Truth Social is anything but nonsense is in itself absurd. I personally would not and will not ever go on that site of agiprop.
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A tweet is not due process
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They’re trying desperately to act as if they’re not in the tank for the felon. Not saying they’ll rule for him this time, but the case shouldn’t even have come up for argument.
If completely unsupported allegations that someone had done something wrong were grounds for firing, there’d be a lot more people gone in DC and elsewhere.
And not just the PRA, but also the First Amendment: if the felon’s social network is an official government outlet, to what extent is it allowed to censor opposing voices?
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I remember my daughter calling me as she stood in line at 100 Court Street in Manhattan. A law student in a clinic, she’d been entrusted within filing paperwork in a case. The old idea of a “true copy.” The orange guy making fun of the autopen should take note.
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totally
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Trump’s followers love to point out that he’s “just trolling” and post things just to get a reaction. In other words he’s intentionally untruthful (he lies) and unserious.
They can’t turn around and claim that his personal social media page, on a site that he owns and zealously censors, is an official government media outlet.
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Why not? You’re talking logic.
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