Documenting America’s slide into a 3rd world country under Trump
Making fun of liar and propagandist Leavitt. Made me laugh
Have to wonder, how many world leaders are going to want to come to the White House to meet with Felon Conman and be bullied, harassed, and embarrassed, especially about bullchit originating from kook Trump’s head
Remember free trade, free enterprise and capitalism. Now Bully, Threatening Trump is being compared to a communist.
Honestly, who still admires this chucklehead creep?
Side note that you know how Felon Trump told Walmart the other day to “eat the tariffs” thus showing, again, to anyone with a brain, that the tariffs are a tax on American citizens. I saw yesterday that Walmart is laying off a bunch of workers.
So…. my own opinion of the intelligence of SCOTUS has gone WAY DOWN but this is pretty hilarious, as in “We like the idea of King Trump running roughshod over American citizens but we don’t want that guy to come after US!!!!!” Here’s what this is about – *independent* agencies Also
SCOTUS gave us another hint yesterday. They decided to allow Trump to remove Democratic members of the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the National Labor Relations Board. The decision was 6-3. The court says that the President can move forward with the firing until they rule on the merits of the case, which is unlikely to happen until the next Supreme Court term. It is very hard to see the court deciding that the firings are fine now, if there is a real prospect that they will change their mind in the future. It’s like telling an arsonist to go ahead, that we can figure out if it is legal or not after your house is a charred shell.
This is a big deal, a de facto overturning of Humphrey’s Executor – the precedent that Congress can constrain the President’s removal power. This standard, which held for 90 years, now appears to be on the chopping block. Congress might say that an official can only be removed for cause like poor performance, but the President can ignore them, removing independent agency heads for any reason he deems fit.
Unitary executive theory is relatively novel, nurtured by the Federalist Society and Republican lawyers who worked in government and were frustrated by Congressional oversight. Five of the nine judges were Republican lawyers who worked in government, and all six Republican appointees have ties to the Federalist Society.
Enacting unitary executive theory means, effectively, that current executive branch officials and past executive branch officials who are now on the Supreme Court would conspire to strip Congress of its powers. In constitutional terms, it is a resetting of the separation of powers to fit the beliefs of the contemporary Republican Party.
Quality of Kristi Noem
And speaking of Trump’s wife, who appears to spend as little time as possible with him and comparison with his Big Bad Murder Bill
Incidentally, everyone knows that Trump and JD Vance insult the Supreme Court and don’t believe they have to obey rulings. That’s why Abrego Garcia is still stuck in El Savador Gulag.
Also, incidentally, Republicans stuck in a piece into the Big Bad Murder Bill that basically makes Trump a facist dictator The Hidden Provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump King.
