If you believe as we do that MAGA fails without FOX;
Eviscerate FOX. Deny them ad $ by denying the ad buying company CEO and execs bonuses. For example Home Depot. Boycott them for a full fiscal quarter. Get all on line influencers to post every day for the entire time. See how fast CEO’s stop buying ads - do only ONE brand - do it implacably for an entire quarter. See how quickly you become the new sheriff in town and how fast other CEO’s quit buying ads. See how fast FOX changes content. All they care about is $. Oh - and next generation FOX CEO will be a decent human being if you do this.
Details matter. Talk to me. See Target and Tesla for examples.
The section and approval process for SCOTUS does not adequately protect the intent of the court. Its rationalizations and decisions weight toward a “point of view” or a sceance-tific connection the founders intent in 1800 takes us for fools. Deliberations should emphasize what is best to assure separation of powers. This decisions destroys that concept. If the term for which an agency leader has been appointed is 10 years by law and precedent, it should be sustained in the absence of incompetence of malfeasance.
This court doesn't call balls and strikes; irbdecidss who can play and who is ejected. Shameful and undemocratic
Why did the court feel the need to explain the carve out for the fed?
If we still get a chance to vote and have those votes count, I would like to see the next sane executive exert all these privileges to clean house and set tribunals as in treason.
As citizens, what can we do to raise awareness within the supreme court, members, Congress, etc. and tell them we want this stopped? Is there a list of people?
The Republican Roberts Court is a fascist instrument of the white, wealthy (primarily Catholic) ruling class !
This is all we need to know to explain their decisions!
Remember every Republican Supreme Court justice was hand-picked by ….
(drum roll here)
The Heritage Foundation!
The acknowledged goal of the founder of the Heritage Foundation was reducing the number of voters!
The Roberts Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, supported numerous Republican voter suppression initiatives in Southern red States, and approved Republican Congressional gerrymandering maps!
Mission Accomplished!
Harry! The Roberts Court accomplished much more for its wealthy overlords!
The Roberts Court handed their wealthy overlords the power to buy the Republican Party!
Remember in Citizens United ( 2010) the not-so-Supreme Court proclaimed wealth as political speech!
Nothing talks as loudly as a billionaire!
Wealth demanded that the Supreme Court elevate its newly purchased Presidency AT THE EXPENSE OF CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY!
Wealth achieved the power to control the presidency and get HUGE TAX CUTS AND TAKE CONTROL OF THOSE PESTY INDEPENDENT AGENCIES!
Harry! Wealthy corporations can now say “goodbye” to all Congressional oversight and accountability!
All of this power-shifting towards extreme wealth is due to…..
I think an equally “pristine” argument can be made that all legislative power is vested in the Congress by Article I. The President is obliged to execute those laws as written. Congress expressly failed to give the President full control over hiring and firing of certain agency heads.
I would add that the unitary executive argument seems to fall into the “proves too much” category. If only the President can exercise the executive apparatus of administrative agencies, then surely it would follow that only the judiciary can exercise the judicial apparatus of those agencies (i.e., the administrative due process mandated by Goldberg v Kelly) and only the Congress can exercise the legislative functions of rulemaking. This administration may like that outcome, since it would dismantle the administrative state, but it is impossible as a practical matter to have a functioning modern nation without it.
The Preamble begins with these words: "We the people. . .." The popular will, the vox populi, is indeed the last and enduring test of legitimacy of the prevailing order. How to muster the exercise of that will is the challenge every putative leader must address. We cry out for such a leader, one who can peacefully rein in the excesses of an increasingly erratic executive.
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court is intentionally enabling Trump’s (and his Project 2025 puppet handler’s) gradual establishment of the new Authoritarian States of America. Unfortunately, Fascism is our new reality. We are the proverbial frog in a slowly heating pan of water on a hot stove. I predict that far too few Americans will realize what’s truly happening to us until it’s entirely too late to stop it. Welcome to the MAGA Empire.
This is such an unbelievable time . I hope we don't reach the stage where President Trump totally ignores the Supreme Court. Now I understand what happened with the Federal Reserve. I just couldn't grasp it . So do we come to this conclusion : The Supreme Court justices possess much wealth. So we cannot let President Trump have any control over the Chair of the Federal Reserve. But everywhere else he is the authority.
I just don't get the appeal of the unitary executive. The Constitution itself places limits on the President's "executive power" by requiring confirmation of his appointments by the Senate (as well as treaties, ambassadors, and other posts).
And if he can just ignore the specific requirements of Congress in setting up an agency, why can't he ignore other things Congress has decreed--like anti-discrimination laws. By his pet DOJ's recent actions, cutting those parts that enforce anti-discrimination, dropping on going cases, isn't he doing just that?
And somehow the Fed, 22 years older than the NLRB, is august and traditional, but the NLRB, part of government for 90 years, isn't?
The interesting thing is that there seems a good chance that neither Alito nor Thomas would have been able to "make it" had there been no New Deal and their parents succumbed to the disaster of the Depression.
The administrative agencies were designed to be quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial, and quasi-executive. I don't see many commentators emphasizing this point. The agency is quasi-legislative when, in accordance with the applicable statute, it adopts regulations having the force of law. The agency is quasi-judicial when its officials decide individual cases about interpretation of the agency's rules and acts on violations of those rules. And it acts as quasi-executive when it enforces its rules. From the outset of independent agencies beginning with the Interstate Commerce Commission, this has always been understood and the court has understood the checks and balances involved when Congress, as the true representatives of the people, creates independent agencies. The attempted undoing of this balance by a tyrant should be enough to convince the court that it should not act to allow members to be removed except in the manner prescribed by the Congress that created their positions. The fact that the court is not granting injunctive relief may not be dispositive, because if the Court finds, as it should, that the President does not have the power to discharge these officers, they will have the right, perhaps, to reinstatement and/or back pay. Then again, pigs may actually fly.
“Unitary Executive” is nothing more, nothing less, than fascist right-wing bullshit for “Dictator.”
Came here to say exactly this. We need to stop letting the GOP control the naming conventions. Call them out!
Somewhere between replacing "overseers" with "supervisors" and replacing "war" with "defense".
Excellent, Harry! Thank you for YOUR service, too, on this day of remembrance!
If you believe as we do that MAGA fails without FOX;
Eviscerate FOX. Deny them ad $ by denying the ad buying company CEO and execs bonuses. For example Home Depot. Boycott them for a full fiscal quarter. Get all on line influencers to post every day for the entire time. See how fast CEO’s stop buying ads - do only ONE brand - do it implacably for an entire quarter. See how quickly you become the new sheriff in town and how fast other CEO’s quit buying ads. See how fast FOX changes content. All they care about is $. Oh - and next generation FOX CEO will be a decent human being if you do this.
Details matter. Talk to me. See Target and Tesla for examples.
The section and approval process for SCOTUS does not adequately protect the intent of the court. Its rationalizations and decisions weight toward a “point of view” or a sceance-tific connection the founders intent in 1800 takes us for fools. Deliberations should emphasize what is best to assure separation of powers. This decisions destroys that concept. If the term for which an agency leader has been appointed is 10 years by law and precedent, it should be sustained in the absence of incompetence of malfeasance.
This court doesn't call balls and strikes; irbdecidss who can play and who is ejected. Shameful and undemocratic
Predetermined
Can't recommend Madiba Dennie & Jay Willis enough: https://ballsandstrikes.substack.com/
And these are the law kids who turned me on to B&S:
https://www.fivefourpod.com/
Why did the court feel the need to explain the carve out for the fed?
If we still get a chance to vote and have those votes count, I would like to see the next sane executive exert all these privileges to clean house and set tribunals as in treason.
As citizens, what can we do to raise awareness within the supreme court, members, Congress, etc. and tell them we want this stopped? Is there a list of people?
The "5 Calls" app is a decent starting point.
Harry!
The Republican Roberts Court is a fascist instrument of the white, wealthy (primarily Catholic) ruling class !
This is all we need to know to explain their decisions!
Remember every Republican Supreme Court justice was hand-picked by ….
(drum roll here)
The Heritage Foundation!
The acknowledged goal of the founder of the Heritage Foundation was reducing the number of voters!
The Roberts Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, supported numerous Republican voter suppression initiatives in Southern red States, and approved Republican Congressional gerrymandering maps!
Mission Accomplished!
Harry! The Roberts Court accomplished much more for its wealthy overlords!
The Roberts Court handed their wealthy overlords the power to buy the Republican Party!
Remember in Citizens United ( 2010) the not-so-Supreme Court proclaimed wealth as political speech!
Nothing talks as loudly as a billionaire!
Wealth demanded that the Supreme Court elevate its newly purchased Presidency AT THE EXPENSE OF CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY!
Wealth achieved the power to control the presidency and get HUGE TAX CUTS AND TAKE CONTROL OF THOSE PESTY INDEPENDENT AGENCIES!
Harry! Wealthy corporations can now say “goodbye” to all Congressional oversight and accountability!
All of this power-shifting towards extreme wealth is due to…..
(You guessed it, Harry!$
The fascist Roberts Court!
The Federalist Society also played a key role in making SCOTUS a partisan body. They vetted Republican nominees for purity over ability & reason.
Absolutely! Thanks for sharing this info, John!
I’ve also been informed that the ultra-conservative Catholic group, Opus Dei, also supported the fascist court justices!
I think an equally “pristine” argument can be made that all legislative power is vested in the Congress by Article I. The President is obliged to execute those laws as written. Congress expressly failed to give the President full control over hiring and firing of certain agency heads.
I would add that the unitary executive argument seems to fall into the “proves too much” category. If only the President can exercise the executive apparatus of administrative agencies, then surely it would follow that only the judiciary can exercise the judicial apparatus of those agencies (i.e., the administrative due process mandated by Goldberg v Kelly) and only the Congress can exercise the legislative functions of rulemaking. This administration may like that outcome, since it would dismantle the administrative state, but it is impossible as a practical matter to have a functioning modern nation without it.
Thank you Harry for highlighting this non-AEA case. How is this case affected by the overturning of Chevron
insofar as challenges to these “independent” agency rules and regulations?
Scant reasoning and Supreme Court are bedmates now.
The Preamble begins with these words: "We the people. . .." The popular will, the vox populi, is indeed the last and enduring test of legitimacy of the prevailing order. How to muster the exercise of that will is the challenge every putative leader must address. We cry out for such a leader, one who can peacefully rein in the excesses of an increasingly erratic executive.
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court is intentionally enabling Trump’s (and his Project 2025 puppet handler’s) gradual establishment of the new Authoritarian States of America. Unfortunately, Fascism is our new reality. We are the proverbial frog in a slowly heating pan of water on a hot stove. I predict that far too few Americans will realize what’s truly happening to us until it’s entirely too late to stop it. Welcome to the MAGA Empire.
This is such an unbelievable time . I hope we don't reach the stage where President Trump totally ignores the Supreme Court. Now I understand what happened with the Federal Reserve. I just couldn't grasp it . So do we come to this conclusion : The Supreme Court justices possess much wealth. So we cannot let President Trump have any control over the Chair of the Federal Reserve. But everywhere else he is the authority.
I just don't get the appeal of the unitary executive. The Constitution itself places limits on the President's "executive power" by requiring confirmation of his appointments by the Senate (as well as treaties, ambassadors, and other posts).
And if he can just ignore the specific requirements of Congress in setting up an agency, why can't he ignore other things Congress has decreed--like anti-discrimination laws. By his pet DOJ's recent actions, cutting those parts that enforce anti-discrimination, dropping on going cases, isn't he doing just that?
And somehow the Fed, 22 years older than the NLRB, is august and traditional, but the NLRB, part of government for 90 years, isn't?
The interesting thing is that there seems a good chance that neither Alito nor Thomas would have been able to "make it" had there been no New Deal and their parents succumbed to the disaster of the Depression.
Remembering back when SCOTUS was looked up to.
The administrative agencies were designed to be quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial, and quasi-executive. I don't see many commentators emphasizing this point. The agency is quasi-legislative when, in accordance with the applicable statute, it adopts regulations having the force of law. The agency is quasi-judicial when its officials decide individual cases about interpretation of the agency's rules and acts on violations of those rules. And it acts as quasi-executive when it enforces its rules. From the outset of independent agencies beginning with the Interstate Commerce Commission, this has always been understood and the court has understood the checks and balances involved when Congress, as the true representatives of the people, creates independent agencies. The attempted undoing of this balance by a tyrant should be enough to convince the court that it should not act to allow members to be removed except in the manner prescribed by the Congress that created their positions. The fact that the court is not granting injunctive relief may not be dispositive, because if the Court finds, as it should, that the President does not have the power to discharge these officers, they will have the right, perhaps, to reinstatement and/or back pay. Then again, pigs may actually fly.