A Criminal Conspiracy: Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok [View all]
DEATH KNELL OF DEMOCRACY:
Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok - The New Republic
Justice Elena Kagan slammed the Supreme Courts 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 Trumps 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 removeso says the majority, though Congress said differentlyany member he wishes, for any reason or no reason at all. And he may thereby extinguish the agencies bipartisanship and independence, Kagan wrote.