People need to brace themselves for the strong possibility that the Roberts Court rules with Trump here. It's the natural end point of the unitary executive theory. Only the sheer magnitude of incompetence might make them blink. - ThreadSky

cavskermit.bsky.social • 66 days ago

People need to brace themselves for the strong possibility that the Roberts Court rules with Trump here. It's the natural end point of the unitary executive theory.

Only the sheer magnitude of incompetence might make them blink.

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

New in PN: How Trump's lawyers are trying to make him a king

"In practical terms, if Trump gets SCOTUS to agree he has unfettered power to remove members of independent regulatory agencies, their independence is over. No more will they issue decisions that don’t reflect his policy preferences."

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genxjennifer.bsky.social•66 days ago

Of all the people to make king the Republicans and Libertarians chose this fickle and capricious criminal. Good grief.

poppins1.bsky.social•66 days ago

Difficult to comprehend/understand and never possible to accept that so many elected and appointed individuals sworn to uphold the constitution and rule of law would abandon all principles!

bstnky1.bsky.social•66 days ago

I'm amazed that Clarence Thomas hasn't been bribed/threatened to resign so Trump can appoint another Nazi to the Supreme Court. Don't be surprised if it happens.

cavskermit.bsky.social•66 days ago

The problem is that there are still folks bribing him to stay on, and the moment he steps down, that ends.

bstnky1.bsky.social•66 days ago

True

fuck-fascism.bsky.social•63 days ago

bobcat777.bsky.social•66 days ago

SCOTUS will rule for Trump. This is part of their agenda. 5 of them are traitors.

ironirma103.bsky.social•66 days ago

bobcat777.bsky.social•66 days ago

I’m a little convinced that ACB is a wild card.

I still don’t like her.

ironirma103.bsky.social•66 days ago

Why?

She was handpicked by Trump

forensicguy.bsky.social•66 days ago

They will rule in Trumps favor. There is no doubt in my mind. I believe that the Trump v. U.S. decision and all their Administrative State decisions made that abundantly clear. The Roberts court is for the rich and powerful, throwing peanuts to the gallery section now and then.

duchesspigseye.bsky.social•66 days ago

But they are human, and don't think anything will happen to them. Until it does. The question is: what do we do when Cheeto ignores the Supremes? That's what we need to be planning now.

ridder.bsky.social•66 days ago

I'm not read up on the scope of unitary executive theory, but I wouldn't be surprised if its proponents hadn't thought through all the potential problems. How does succession work? What if your king is incompetent? It's almost as if the founders were smarter than a bunch of angry think tank cranks.

cavskermit.bsky.social•66 days ago

It basically stands for the proposition that the President is the chief executive and any law that purports to limit what he can do with respect to administrative personnel infringes about that role.

ridder.bsky.social•66 days ago

I understand that, though I thought it was more than just what he can do with administrative personnel. But I'd say this is the problem, what does "unitary executive" stand for? Anything its proponents, or opponents, want it to mean.

cavskermit.bsky.social•66 days ago

Theoretically, the administration still runs into hard limits when it bumps up against Article I or III.

ridder.bsky.social•66 days ago

Yah, I'm not making my point clear. You're keep referring to general, top-level things that are easy and perhaps obvious to understand. I'm talking about the devilish details. I'm fairly convinced the proponents haven't thought of the consequences of their idea.

cavskermit.bsky.social•66 days ago

Upon

mikefrburkecville.bsky.social•66 days ago

Both Roberts and Gorsuch occasionally can tell which way the wind is blowing, though.

americanwoman54.bsky.social•66 days ago

And Barrett has stood up a couple of times as well. I want to think optimistically due to these three, but...

mikefrburkecville.bsky.social•66 days ago

That occurred to me after I typed it. Gotta cling to hope.

cowchaser24.bsky.social•66 days ago

There will be some rules changed to prevent this crap if dems ever get their shit together

bear-dee-arr.bsky.social•66 days ago

But ultimately SCOTUS wants to be the final authority. I think they’ll allow for more contests. Wouldn’t want a unitary executive that they don’t agree with.

bear-dee-arr.bsky.social•66 days ago

And if you like my dangling participle, there’s more where that came from.

thatmanglenn.bsky.social•66 days ago

Judges have made themselves fair game for political protests that disrupt their daily lives.

It’s not like they are above corruption

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•66 days ago

But if the court does, aren’t they signing off on their own demise?

hughdelendaest.bsky.social•66 days ago

Of course they will rule in favor of the unitary executive. Do not even entertain the possibility they will rule otherwise.

mufcadam.bsky.social•66 days ago

Of all the idiotic missteps the Democrats took, and there are many, never even attempting to correct the imbalance of the SCOTUS, even in the face of a stolen seat & your democracy clearly hanging in the balance, is right up there top of the charts. They should have packed it to the gills.

cavskermit.bsky.social•66 days ago

I'm open to arguments as to how they were supppsed to do that with Manchin and Sinema as the 50th and 51st votes, but I haven't heard any good ones.

mufcadam.bsky.social•66 days ago

No that's fair. Short of pulling a primary on them in the midterms (were they even contesting their seats?) I don't know. But god I wish they'd found some way.

raidersyourface.bsky.social•66 days ago

I mean, they already put him above the law, so, yeah...

chuckgrape.bsky.social•66 days ago

We need to overthrow this mother fucker yesterday.

lizziebeez.bsky.social•66 days ago

If f47 is able to dismiss the legislative bills and appropriations, who's to say he can't do the same with the judicial including SCOTUS? When will he declare he has the power to fire liberal SCOTUS judges?

idummkopp.bsky.social•66 days ago

hortgirl0791.bsky.social•66 days ago

Then why will we even need a scotus at that point?

kencomplain.bsky.social•66 days ago

A question Trump has pondered himself.

kobe8-24.bsky.social•66 days ago

leemeade.bsky.social•66 days ago

Even CJ Roberts has to see that handing what little remains of their power over to tRump is a one-way street. Already in the top-2 of worst CJs ever.

iplayguitarbad.bsky.social•66 days ago

It's crazy how with Repub presidents we hear so much about unitary executive theory, while when Dems are in office we're offered judicial supremacy. Just one of those little frustrations while living in the freest country on earth.

stevestarr.bsky.social•66 days ago

Maybe, just maybe, Americans will finally realize that Elections have consequences, and staying home exacerbates the problems.

kencomplain.bsky.social•66 days ago

If they do—and even if they don’t—what is stopping him from dissolving the SC?

cavskermit.bsky.social•66 days ago

Article III.

kencomplain.bsky.social•66 days ago

Trump cares not for the rule of law and constitution.

cavskermit.bsky.social•66 days ago

If the argument is that Trump will do as he pleases until he's stopped with military force, than the courts are, at best, marginally relevant.

kencomplain.bsky.social•66 days ago

Unless congress gets its act together, it’s hard to see how he doesn’t get everything he wants, legally or otherwise.

They have already violated court orders and pretended like it was a mistake.

equinas.bsky.social•66 days ago

I do wonder how SCOTUS would have responded if Biden or Obama would have pulled this crap. I don't think their ruling would be in favor of unitary executive.

xehtfodrol.bsky.social•66 days ago

IANAL so I might not understand the actual case law here, but if I was opposing this I would be so sassy and just constantly reference "well the Roberts court said the Executive can't..." Every time they ruled against Obama or Biden.

Roberts is vain after all.

dfd2691.bsky.social•66 days ago

Correction: it’s the Alito Court. John Roberts is the figurehead chief justice, Alito is the actual head of the snake.

nickforbrains.bsky.social•66 days ago

They’ve already made him a king.

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