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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Unfortunately increasing numbers of people think this is brilliant and is actually a plausible argument.
She's an over achiever.
I know this is changing the subject, but would cancellation of Biden’s auto-pen orders nullify his auto-pen appointments?
KBJ is a JOKE!
Even the other liberals on the court think she’s an idiot.
What legalese? I used none. If I wasn’t clear, what I said was that Trump can dismantle any unconstitutional “independent agency” at will, per the Constitution.
Unless you think the Constitution contains “legalese”? I think it’s straightforward, myself.
The deep state is the “side” that butters KBJ’s bread, to modify an idiom.
KBJ should never have even got out of committee, let alone been confirmed. This shows how sick our system has gotten since the democrats have gone full communist and the republicans have done little to nothing to stop them.
Of course. They do our “studies”.
Yet, who pays them? Who appoints them?
Of course. They got it right in Dredd Scott, Blessed vs. Ferguson, etc.
And only if the President signs it.
Lol. I typed Plessey twice.
That’s one of the reasons both sides still have the knives out for Goldwater. He’s been thoroughly trashed with lies for many decades.
Government EXPERTS……..LMAO…….SPIT!!! Dr. Fauci who NEVER even had a stethoscope on his neck unless posing for a magazine cover!!! NEVER FORGET republicans passed this complete idiot through without even a whimper……SPIT!!! When has ANYONE ever seen an EXPERT employed by government ANY EXPERT would NEVER BE employed by government only LOSERS go to government for employment BECAUSE no one else will employ them!! This woman is an absolute disgrace on the SCOTUS!! I hope the senate enjoys their new member Crockett so they can SEE first hand what they have done to the SCOTUS!!!McConnell and the rest make me SICK!!!! They THINK they are such a prestigious body GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!! They deserve Crockett!!!
-PJ
Maybe both parties. But I do not see how genuine conservatives have any reason to trash Goldwater, particularly his book.
That's my point exactly. You can tell who's a rino by how they feel about a true conservative like Goldwater. If they parrot the left's narrative about him then you'll know they're not genuine. The rinos have helped the left trash Goldwater and conservatism for decades.
I don’t know how many people still have the Goldwater book in print, but here’s a digitized copy.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000217069&seq=7
They were not genuine conservatives. Goldwater was opposed by Nelson Rockefeller, William Scranton, George Romney, Henry Cabot Lodge among others. All republicans about like the Bush republicans recently.
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