The US Supreme Court has ruled President Donald Trump can dismiss a top official on the Federal Trade Commission.
In the 6-3 ruling, the justices sided with Trump, allowing him to fire Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter from her post while legal challenges continue.
It has also agreed to revisit a nearly century-old legal precedent that shields independent agencies set up by Congress from presidential interference.
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the dissenting liberal justices, warned that the ruling allows the president to take charge of institutions Congress had intended to protect from partisanship.
“Congress, as everyone agrees, prohibited each of those presidential removals,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent. “Yet the majority, stay order by stay order, has handed full control of all those agencies to the President.”
This one is heartbreaking, our majority SCOTUS is 100% corrupt and evil. Yes, we’ve had this before, but we didn’t have a dictator in office before. They should be firing his ass, not giving him more leeway.
Technically it’s 6/9 corrupt and evil.
Of course it’s the corupt SCOTUS that would make 69 evil.
But seriously fuck them for giving more power to a factious dictator. I hope all their terms become limited.
6-3 will be on the grave stone for our country
