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Hillary Clinton slams ‘embarrassing’ Supreme Court ruling expanding Trump’s firing power
MS NOW ^ | 7/2/2026 | Sydney Carruth

Posted on 07/03/2026 10:52:40 AM PDT by simpson96

Hillary Clinton warned that the Supreme Court’s Republican majority is “turning the clock back” with some of its recent decisions, including the “nonsensical” ruling earlier this week that gives the president the authority to fire members of independent federal agencies.

The former secretary of state pointed to the “mental gymnastics” that the high court performed when it backed President Donald Trump in his case against Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, whom he fired without cause. The ruling on Monday overturned a 1935 precedent that had protected agency independence.

“I mean, it is a nonsensical — and it’s almost embarrassing to read, because they know it’s nonsensical, but they don’t care,” Clinton said during an interview published Thursday with Marc Elias, the founder of the progressive platform Democracy Docket.

She suggested that the court’s separate ruling that day allowing fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to keep her job for now made the Slaughter decision even less coherent.

“What we’ve got is a full court attack on fundamental principles of constitutional law, judicial precedent, of long-standing norms and interpretation, and it truly is turning the clock back,” Clinton added.(snip)

Clinton called on Democrats to “play the long game” like conservatives have when it comes to the high court.


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No surprise - she's part of the "Once you're in, you're in for life" gov't job crowd.
1 posted on 07/03/2026 10:52:40 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

It is not a matter of “turning the clock back” or turning it forward. It is about what does the Constitution have to say about this?


2 posted on 07/03/2026 10:53:41 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: simpson96

That interview should have been accompanied by two yardarms.


3 posted on 07/03/2026 10:54:37 AM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: simpson96

Each and every day, we are gifted with additional proof that the Hillabeast is an example that there was DEI for whites back when she was in ‘kollege’.


4 posted on 07/03/2026 10:56:07 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: simpson96

She thinks what she says is important...ROFL


5 posted on 07/03/2026 10:57:35 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: simpson96

She thinks what she says is important...ROFL


6 posted on 07/03/2026 10:57:35 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: simpson96

Doesn’t she remember about trying to fire all the white house staff when she was first lady?


7 posted on 07/03/2026 10:58:59 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: simpson96

She is terrified. And she should be.


8 posted on 07/03/2026 10:59:13 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: simpson96

The fact that this woman seems to be perpetually unhappy gives me a certain amount of satisfaction.

Especially after all that we know of that she’s done, and who knows what she’s done we may never know about.

I don’t believe in karma, but I have seen how life has a way of catching up to people.


9 posted on 07/03/2026 11:00:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: simpson96

What did she say about federal workers being fired for not taking the vax?


10 posted on 07/03/2026 11:04:17 AM PDT by Red6
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To: simpson96

Why do we still have to listen to the criminal Hildebeast?


11 posted on 07/03/2026 11:05:53 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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At once time, the resident union had a hand in firing the employee, which in one case lengthened the sad process over three years.

Ask pillary about all those employees miraculously fired while her husband was president.


12 posted on 07/03/2026 11:06:59 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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What did she say about federal workers being fired for not taking the vax?

That was her other face talking.

13 posted on 07/03/2026 11:07:48 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: simpson96

Vince Foster would like to turn the clock back.


14 posted on 07/03/2026 11:08:09 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: JBW1949
She thinks what she says is important...ROFL

Absolutely.

That's why she's on MS-NOW.

15 posted on 07/03/2026 11:11:12 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: simpson96

There is no swamp without em


16 posted on 07/03/2026 11:13:21 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: simpson96

We declared Independence 250 years ago because people like her...she is an enemy of freedom...and considers herself a Queen.


17 posted on 07/03/2026 11:13:32 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Most Congress Critters should be referred to as what they are....LOOTERS)
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To: simpson96

Says the woman who fired the whole White House Travel Office and sicced the FBI on Billy Dale. Remember Travel Gate Hillary?


18 posted on 07/03/2026 11:18:06 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: goodnesswins

Isn’t it nice to know that every, single, day, it galls her that she will never be President?


19 posted on 07/03/2026 11:27:42 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe Hillary owes these people and its payback time.


20 posted on 07/03/2026 11:29:50 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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