7d ago

Justices Seem Ready to Give Trump More Power to Fire Independent Government Officials

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A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.

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7d ago

Justices Seem Ready to Give Trump More Power to Fire Independent Government Officials

www.nytimes.com /2025/12/08/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-presidential-power.html

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Roberts needs to feel unsafe every time he is in public.
The fascist traitor filth are well overdue to be purged.
So, not independent. Cool.
Fuckheads.
- Not anymore — there is no way they'd have gone along with this if it was a Democrat swapping out officials to his every whim
Isn’t SCOTUS an independent body? If so, does this green light their removal if a President wants to remove someone?
- Congress can remove a justice with a majority vote in the house and a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate. This means you can't actually remove a judge unless they lose support from within their own party, and the Republicans have shown that they wont go along with removal no matter what.
  This means that in practice, the path forward is to add additional judges, so that the Republicans are a minority, and unable to do any damage.
  
  What if they want to remove one as an “official act”?
  I think this is all horrible, but I really want them to eat their own dog food.
- Yes but different branch of government.
  
  That's had zero meaning so far.

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