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Justices Seem Ready to Give Trump More Power to Fire Independent Government Officials (www.nytimes.com)
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A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So, not independent. Cool.

    Fuckheads.

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    • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Isn’t SCOTUS an independent body? If so, does this green light their removal if a President wants to remove someone?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Congress can remove a justice with a majority vote in the house and a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate. This means you can't actually remove a judge unless they lose support from within their own party, and the Republicans have shown that they wont go along with removal no matter what.

    This means that in practice, the path forward is to add additional judges, so that the Republicans are a minority, and unable to do any damage.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes but different branch of government.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    That's had zero meaning so far.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    If you mean in the instance of the rule of law yes. But the theory that the president is making is that as the head of the exec he should be able to control the exec. including independent boards and committees. So to answer the original question they will say the difference is the supreme Court is the judicial branch.

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    • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I dunno who wrote this but most of the conservative justices seemed against it. Implying that if it is overturned a president could use it to make every commission independent jam in appointees with lifetime positions and no one could do anything about it.

    They seem to understand they don't have actual party support anymore.

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