Clark Tucker

Retired US Forest Service Ranger and living in Utah. Enjoying life - love to get into the great outdoors! Utah State Aggie.

[UFO mania @maniaUFO]

Video of living Mammoth filmed in 1943 by German officer in Russia👀

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

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.

[Frank C @FrankCMYK]

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.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Partisan extremism with a side order of hypocrisy

[Frank C @FrankCMYK]

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.

[Grant Stern  @grantstern]

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.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

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.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

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!

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

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

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

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.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

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.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Once again, this retired Journalism professor fixes an erroneous Washington Post headline:

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

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

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Utterly against history, the framers intent, the constitution itself. A court more suited for Putin.

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

Donnie considers it a "loss" that people who vote by Election Day get to have their votes counted.

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

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

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

One of the dumbest arguments out there is the insistence that the two parties are the same today as they were in the mid-19th century.

[Science Simplified @Scivf4]

Whenever you feel sad, remember that there are tiny kinesin proteins doing their best to make you happy.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Trump is having the US government literally own shares of private companies.

He is the most communist president we’ve ever had, Comrade Laura.

[Clark Tucker @Astroranger]

Utah senators have degenerated amazingly.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

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.