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B.See

(6,772 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:17 PM Monday

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 Monday OP

Scotus (men + Barrett) don't give shit vapor2 Monday #1

My American Government prof. once HighFired49 Tuesday #9

Trump and the heritage foundation has been testing and Klarkashton Monday #2

+1 dalton99a Monday #4

They use the constitution popsdenver Monday #5

Mostly they use it as their toilet paper. lastlib Monday #6

Just like the treat all laws. rubbersole Tuesday #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 Tuesday #10

Mahalo, SCJ Eena Kagan! Cha Monday #3

Women Are Smarter Than Men! That's right! I don't know what happened to Barrett. flashman13 Tuesday #8

repukes still whine about "activists on the bench" Skittles Tuesday #11

THIS!!!! BurnDoubt Tuesday #12

vapor2

(3,155 posts)

1. Scotus (men + Barrett) don't give shit

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:23 PM

Monday

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

HighFired49

(437 posts)

9. My American Government prof. once

Reply to vapor2 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:18 AM

Tuesday

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

(4,091 posts)

2. Trump and the heritage foundation has been testing and

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:25 PM

Monday

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.

dalton99a

(90,413 posts)

4. +1

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:12 PM

Monday

popsdenver

(532 posts)

5. They use the constitution

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:43 PM

Monday

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

(26,743 posts)

6. Mostly they use it as their toilet paper.

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:53 PM

Monday

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

rubbersole

(10,610 posts)

7. Just like the treat all laws.

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:05 AM

Tuesday

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

Trueblue Texan

(3,794 posts)

10. Well, if it all falls apart because they won't adhere to the law and Constitution, there is another side to that.

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:26 AM

Tuesday

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

Cha

(314,613 posts)

3. Mahalo, SCJ Eena Kagan!

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:27 PM

Monday

TY B.See

flashman13

(1,534 posts)

8. Women Are Smarter Than Men! That's right! I don't know what happened to Barrett.

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:07 AM

Tuesday

Skittles

(167,719 posts)

11. repukes still whine about "activists on the bench"

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:29 AM

Tuesday

HELLO!!!

BurnDoubt

(1,054 posts)

12. THIS!!!!

Reply to Skittles (Reply #11)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:58 AM

Tuesday

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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