Originally published at: The Supreme Court’s Project to Coronate Trump Takes a Leap Forward
The Supreme Court sent the independent executive branch agency into extinction this week, without even bothering to overturn the precedent that forbids it to do so first. The right-wing majority allowed President Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commission’s Rebecca Slaughter to stand — nearly an identical firing to the one that the Court declared illegal…
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I know that it’s difficult to choose between atrocities but I’m very surprised that tRump’s totally unhinged rant from the UN podium this morning didn’t get mention. Even after so many embarrassments on the world stage this was a whole new low.
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I’ve decided the SCOTUS majority has no real bottom democracy-wise but is not really Reich-Wing either: they’re Tories, loyal royalists, and they would have joined the British in our Revolutionary War because by god they want their king.
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I, for one, am not ready to forgive Disney. I want to, so if anyone wants to make an argument, I’ll listen, but so far they have proven to be completely untrustworthy, responding only to threats.
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No doubt about it. When Democrats have power again, they need to clean out and then reform this corrupt once-supreme Court. By then, the precedent will have been established that The Imperial President, in Whose Name We Pray, can fire absolutely anyone.
And thus went the Seditious Six.
Need I mention that Chuch Schumer will have been replaced by AOC?
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Roger Tanney ain’t got nothin’ on John Roberts.
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It’s nice (I guess “nice” is the word") to see someone like Pritzker talk about this. I don’t know that it’ll do any good, but at least someone with a bigger audience than, say, me is talking about it.
And after that, expect ICE to be weaponized against first against “unruly” people of color, and then against anyone who dares voice dissent against Trump. This is where we’re headed, and it’s quite clear SCOTUS and the Republican Congress will do absolutely nothing to stop any of it.
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John Roberts’ suggesting that the SCOTUS only calls “balls and strikes” and that he wants to maintain the integrity of the court is, and was, bull shit.
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I feel the same way but it’s partly longstanding resentment from the days you couldn’t get into Disney World if you were a hippy guy with long hair.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see Kimmel’s response, if any, on the show tonight. Either he capitulated and will apologize, or Disney caved because they lost cable subscriptions and got too much online blowback. If he apologizes I don’t see much future for his show.
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If this whole disaster ends like it is very likely to, I think the argument can be made that any decision relying on votes from Trump appointees should not be treated as precedent.
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OT. Anyone know of any betting pools on the date when her face starts hollowing out and her lips start inflating?
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Someone needs to tell the “Originalists” on the SC that the Founding Fathers placed Congress in Article One and the Executive in Article Two for a reason.
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What would be cool. Kimmel walks out with a paper script. Says this is what disney approved. Rips it up. Does a monologue that gets him fired (again?).
He will stand-up for everything this country is supposed to stand for.
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A disturbing story, but I still have to pedantically point something out:
There is no such verb as “to coronate.” The correct verb is “to crown.”
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Thank you. That got on my last remaining nerve, too.
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rabid partisanship and self-serving corruption
There’s the definition of Republican government. Power and privilege trickle down too.
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Trump’s slap at EU oil imports from Russia seems mainly pointed at Hungary and Slovakia, which technically still use the Druzhba pipeline when it’s not being bombed. Weird.
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Perhaps he’ll just “move on.” Nothing to apologize for. He’s back and that’s what matters. And another defeat for Lardass.
Any hint of an apology and and we would have to call it failure. Hate to see that happen.
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We know Sinclair is owned by evangelicals. Their CEO was caught chasing prostitutes in Baltimore a couple of years back. Proof positive.
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That nonexistent top lip bothers me greatly.
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