Originally published at: Supreme Court Kills The Independent Agency. Trump Is King
The Supreme Court majority all but declared Thursday that it is ready to overturn a nearly century-old precedent meant to protect independent agencies from at-will firing by the President. It’s the last brick to fall in the division between the President and the parts of the executive branch Congress created to be beyond his reach,…
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Guaranteed the minute Roberts allowed unlimited money in politics.
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Unbelievable. Trump before country, every time, with the conservative justices.
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“Because Trump will never come after me…”
See Night of the Long Knives…
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At what point do we understand that there is no coming back? Even if we somehow managed to get a Democratic president, House and Senate by 2028 (something I think that’s nearly impossible), the rot is too deep and it’s roots are too strong.
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Dec. 12, 2000
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We MIGHT be able to kill this if we get senators and congressmen and governors talking about how, without these guardrails, we democrats can do X with their next presidency.
“We will make sure there are no conservatives of any stripe present at any federal agency, and fire any in the IRS that aren’t willing to aggressively and exclusively review returns on those making over 5 million dollars. …”
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I think when we get the presidency we should have a blue ribbon panel to evaluate court reform.
That’ll fix it
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Shocking!
Clutch Pearls|410x323
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Nope. Cuz this kills the FEC too…
Bright side is it will hasten the next wars.
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So, when FDR did it in Humphrey’s Executor, it was illegal. But, when Trump does it it’s okay.
Gee, what can the difference be?
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Purchased SC.
If we miraculously take the senate in '26
Alito and thomas retire and are replaced in the lame duck.
'26 is a tough year. But no one thought we get there in '06 until it happened.
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I hope the Democrats see that the path taken by Sanders and AOC is the only plausible to reconstruct the system. This radical realignment can only be repaired by radical reform.
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Let history show, Trump did not destroy us alone; he did it with the help of SCOTUS and complicity of republicans- both those in power and republican voters.
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Despair is not the solution, though I’ll give you that this blows. Find a protest 06/14/2025. Be there. We all need do this. Together. In big numbers.
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Tell me again about the scourge of “liberal activist judges.”
Can we all start learning to scream the word bullshit? Citizens need to do it at Republican town halls. Journalists need to do it to lying Republicans. Congressional Dems need to start using it every fucking day.
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Maybe it is time to kill the elite law schools. They seem to produce idiots.
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There can be no doubt that MAGA will do everything in its rapidly growing power to corrupt the 2028 election. There’s no way they want this kind of power in the hands of a Democrat.
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Some historians still assert that the Nazi-friendly Jew-deporting Vichy government really was independent and good for France.
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Citizens United and the Electoral College are the tools Republicans use to make sure their power will be unchecked.
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