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B.See

(7,207 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:17 PM Sep 22

A Criminal Conspiracy: Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok

DEATH KNELL OF DEMOCRACY:

Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok - The New Republic

Justice Elena Kagan slammed the Supreme Court’s conservative majority Monday for handing “full control” of independent agencies to... Donald Trump by allowing him to fire anyone he wants “for any reason or no reason at all.”

The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines approving Trump’s emergency request to remove Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. The court also announced that it would hear arguments for the case in December.

In a brief, scathing dissent, Kagan accused her conservative colleagues of allowing Trump to discharge a member of the FTC “without any cause,” just as they had let him do with the other independent agencies made up of bipartisan members: the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Trump “may now remove—so says the majority, though Congress said differently—any member he wishes, for any reason or no reason at all. And he may thereby extinguish the agencies’ bipartisanship and independence,” Kagan wrote.

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A Criminal Conspiracy: Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok (Original Post) B.See Sep 22 OP
Scotus (men + Barrett) don't give shit vapor2 Sep 22 #1
My American Government prof. once HighFired49 Sep 23 #9
Trump and the heritage foundation has been testing and Klarkashton Sep 22 #2
+1 dalton99a Sep 22 #4
They use the constitution popsdenver Sep 22 #5
Mostly they use it as their toilet paper. lastlib Sep 22 #6
Just like the treat all laws. rubbersole Sep 23 #7
Well, if it all falls apart because they won't adhere to the law and Constitution, there is another side to that. Trueblue Texan Sep 23 #10
Mahalo, SCJ Eena Kagan! Cha Sep 22 #3
Women Are Smarter Than Men! That's right! I don't know what happened to Barrett. flashman13 Sep 23 #8
repukes still whine about "activists on the bench" Skittles Sep 23 #11
THIS!!!! BurnDoubt Sep 23 #12

vapor2

(3,336 posts)
1. Scotus (men + Barrett) don't give shit
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:23 PM
Sep 22

They will see people die and maybe even a world war thanks to their willingness to let 47 run amok.

HighFired49

(439 posts)
9. My American Government prof. once
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:18 AM
Sep 23

asked our class on the first day of the semester, "What holds our country together?" Of course, there were several ideas like "our laws, police, army, the courts," etc. He just smiled and said "it's our mutual agreement to support its Constitution and other laws, but if that ever fails, we're toast." It certainly seems that we're very close to the point that the agreement is failing, especially with a Supreme Court majority, one party of the Legislature, and the President all disregarding our system of laws. We have too many people serving a person, and not the Constitution.

Klarkashton

(4,499 posts)
2. Trump and the heritage foundation has been testing and
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:25 PM
Sep 22

Probing the weakness of laws and the Constitution.
To their delight they have found out that it's a house of cards based on good faith and wisdom.

We are fucked.

popsdenver

(851 posts)
5. They use the constitution
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:43 PM
Sep 22

when it favors them, and completely ignore it the rest of the time......

After all, the Republicans have said, it is an antiquated piece of paper........

lastlib

(27,000 posts)
6. Mostly they use it as their toilet paper.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:53 PM
Sep 22

Wiped The Felon's fat worthless ass with it, and flushed it.

rubbersole

(10,808 posts)
7. Just like the treat all laws.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:05 AM
Sep 23

Enforce the ones that benefit them, ignore the ones that hinder them. Pretty good job if you can get one.

Trueblue Texan

(3,946 posts)
10. Well, if it all falls apart because they won't adhere to the law and Constitution, there is another side to that.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:26 AM
Sep 23

If they ignore the laws, why should anyone else heed them? Something they'd better keep in mind.

BurnDoubt

(1,181 posts)
12. THIS!!!!
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:58 AM
Sep 23

Along with EVERYTHING they've been yammering the Democrats would do (But NEVER DID AND NEVER WILL!!!!)
Saying Again: They don't believe in God, otherwise they would be WAY more afraid of going to Hellllll.
The spelling of Hell has been upgraded to include four "Ls"... Leonard Leo, and Laura Loomer... two UNELECTED INFLUENCERS now running our country without any guardrails.

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