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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Argues Presidents Should Not Be Able to Fire Government Experts
Breitbart ^ | 8 Dec 2025 | Elizabeth Weibel

Posted on 12/10/2025 4:21:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argued that the president of the United States should not be able to fire government experts such as scientists, doctors, economists, and PhDs, and she claimed it is “not in the best interest” of American citizens.

During oral arguments for Trump v. Slaughter, while talking to U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, Jackson said she did “not understand” why “agencies aren’t answering to Congress.” Jackson pointed out that “Congress established them and can eliminate them.”

The oral arguments come after the Supreme Court, in September, allowed President Donald Trump to remove Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

“I really don’t understand why the agencies aren’t answering to Congress,” Jackson said. “Congress established them and can eliminate them. Congress funds them, and can stop. So, to the extent that we’re concerned that there’s some sort of entity that is out of control and has no control, I guess I don’t understand that argument.” …

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; communism; dei; ftc; illiteratenegress; impeachkbj; kbj; ketanjibrownjackson; scotus; slaughter; supremecourt; tds; tokenjustice; unfit4bench
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Congress is not the executive any more than the judiciary is the executive. Independent agencies wielding both legislative and executive power are not in the Constitution, and are therefore un-Constitutional anyway and should be dismantled by executive command.
1 posted on 12/10/2025 4:21:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

But...but...but...The President nominates them....


2 posted on 12/10/2025 4:24:57 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Olog-hai

We need people like her to show how stupid they are


3 posted on 12/10/2025 4:25:07 PM PST by zeebee
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To: Olog-hai

She is such a pea wit.


4 posted on 12/10/2025 4:25:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ketanji is deadbeat so she loves deadbeats


5 posted on 12/10/2025 4:27:42 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Olog-hai

yep

Basically those agencies were allowed because no president attempted to take back his power over them before. It is sort of like the fillibuster. That is not in the constitution. It exists because each and every congress allows it to exist, the courts have no say in the matter of how congress chooses to conduct its business.

But just as no past congress can tie the hands of a future one with a law or a rule, the same can be said about the president. Just because many past presidents were willing to go along with this whole “independent” agency thing, does not tie the hands of all future presidents. No “law” can take away the executive branches constititional powers, only a constitional amendment can do that.


6 posted on 12/10/2025 4:28:33 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Olog-hai

She was installed to protect the O’Biden ticks and leeches infesting the bureaucracy. She is stupid. but she knows he purpose and that’s to make the bureaucracy the true power in the nation.


7 posted on 12/10/2025 4:31:21 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: Organic Panic

Still needs to be determined whether or not her appointment was legal.


8 posted on 12/10/2025 4:32:32 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

I had a teacher back in 1961 describe what an expert was.
“’X-spurt.’ An unknown drip under pressure.”


9 posted on 12/10/2025 4:33:22 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970s!)
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To: Olog-hai

Where does it say that in the constitution?


10 posted on 12/10/2025 4:33:44 PM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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... I guess I don’t understand that argument.” …..

That statement sums up Ketanji Brown Jackson perfectly.

11 posted on 12/10/2025 4:34:13 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: zeebee

“We need people like her to show how stupid they are”

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True, however...

Show her as an example to who?

The prog think she is right.

The normal Americans think she is wrong.

Half of the voters don’t think at all.

Is she stupid? BIG TIME.

Will this even be remembered in two days? Nope.

To demonstrate the overall lack of common sense, the witnesses of such a demonstration require the ability to actually understand what concept is being proven.

Kind of leaves half the population SOL, as the saying goes...

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12 posted on 12/10/2025 4:37:15 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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We need people like her to show how stupid they are

The affirmative action hire exposed as incompetent.
13 posted on 12/10/2025 4:37:39 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Olog-hai

Idiocracy on the bench. This country is so screwed.


14 posted on 12/10/2025 4:38:10 PM PST by JZelle
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To: Olog-hai

Can Trump fire the non-biologist? Just a little bit?


15 posted on 12/10/2025 4:38:34 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Olog-hai
I really don’t understand

We know

16 posted on 12/10/2025 4:39:36 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Your teacher must have had a kid who got Boys’ Life, I remember that from reading it on the back page of jokes. I don’t remember too many others as distinctly.


17 posted on 12/10/2025 4:40:32 PM PST by sopo
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To: Olog-hai

Of course she did!


18 posted on 12/10/2025 4:41:20 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)T)
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To: Olog-hai
We should always defer to unelected tyrants in black robes.


19 posted on 12/10/2025 4:44:38 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Olog-hai

The Constitution is very clear that if you an “expert” you cannot be removed by mere Presidents.

Lol.


20 posted on 12/10/2025 4:47:27 PM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
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