No, Donald, this was not a case "against the United States of America and all it stands for." It was a case against you. And a jury of your peers found you liable for rape and defamation. You lost. Again.
The Supreme Court is expanding presidential power in plain sight.
First, they gave Trump immunity like a king. Now they’ve thrown out nearly 100 years of precedent and weakened the independence of agencies meant to check CORRUPTION , FRAUD, MONOPOLIES, and ABUSE.
This is unitary executive theory by slow bleed.
People keep waiting for one big ruling that says “Trump is king.” That’s not how this works.
They’re building it case by case, brick by brick, until the presidency becomes too powerful to control.
This is exactly how constitutional power shifts happen, not with one dramatic ruling, but through a series of decisions that gradually remove checks on presidential power.
Today’s FTC ruling is another step toward a stronger version of the unitary executive theory. Pay attention!
Institutions aren’t dismantled overnight, they’re weakened one precedent at a time, much like what happened to key protections in the Voting Rights Act.
With its decision in Trump vs. Slaughter, the Supreme Court’s right wing just obliterated 91-years of precedent and gave the President power to slaughter governmental independence forever.
They want a king, not a president.
Awful lot of supposed small-government conservatives are very happy that the Supreme Court has enacted one of the largest expansions of federal executive power in my lifetime. Might want to remember they won’t always be in control of Washington.
This shit can backfire on you.
Today’s decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!
Sotomayor:
In abolishing independent agencies, SCOTUS hands the U.S. president more powers than a king, whom Parliament could constrain from removing high-level royal officers. https://t.co/5r4Cnm6HN6
Justice Sotomayor is right. The unitary executive theory has no basis in the constitution and is half baked at Best. Six right wing justices who have already blown up the constitution with the insane immunity decision, now take it even further, giving a malignant narcissistic dictator, a clear path to using power against his perceived enemies. We have seen with the monstrous Brendan Carr how regulatory power can be misused for malign purposes. The Robert/AlitoCourt is by far the worst in American history.
This case will not be talked about much, but today the Supreme Court abolished the independence of many federal agencies. It is a decision that will grant the President more power than a king.
Once again, SCOTUS makes the pro-corruption decision.
Regulatory decisions that have for decades been trustworthy are now amenable to political fix by a president’s henchmen, in this dark-money political world.
https://t.co/dsy3HvzT2a
Trump has had the federal govt take ownership stakes in a dozen companies over the last year. He has used tariffs and tariff exceptions to induce companies into doing what he wants. He has used the threat of stopping mergers to get power over media companies
He's the communist
Utah once had better senators.
Utah Senator Arthur Watkins chaired the 1954 special committee to investigate misconduct by McCarthy. Watkins ran the hearings well, and the committee unanimously recommended McCarthy be censured, leading to the full Senate vote against McCarthy.