Posted on 09/08/2025 9:00:21 AM PDT by CFW
Chief Justice John Roberts has allowed President Trump to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission for now.
The chief justice granted interim relief to the Trump administration Monday while the Supreme Court takes more time to consider its request to lift a lower court order requiring Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to be reinstated to her position at the commission.
Slaughter is one of several appointees at independent agencies that the president has removed. The Supreme Court has allowed Mr. Trump to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission while legal challenges to the removals move forward.
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Not one SCOTUS opinion, ruling, etc., is worth the paper it’s written on. Every RAT ignores SCOTUS, and will continue to do so. SCOTUS has not power to enforce.
Oh please. That order does NOT DO THAT !
It is a TEMPORARY STAY !
SOMEBODY has SEVEN DAYS to file a response:
“It is further ordered that a response to the application be filed on or before Monday, September 15th, 2025, by 4 p.m.
(Presumably REBECCA K. SLAUGHTER)
SCOTUS has not power to enforce. “
True but that applies to the lower court hacks to an even greater degree. My frustration is Trump’s refusal to use the SC rulings as cover to ignore these punks.
“clears the way for Trump to fire FTC commissioner
FOR NOW”
Always the caveat. “FOR NOW”.
Can she challenge the firing again, but at a later date?
It must really pain Chief Justice Roberts to decide anything
in Trumps’ favor.
What a BS first line.
Should read: Court confirms legality of Trump’s action….
Other headlines were even worse.
“SCOTUS ‘allows’.....”
Other headlines were even worse.
“SCOTUS ‘allows’.....”
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Actually, that headline tells it like it is. They are appearing to give him permission to run his own branch of government.
That black justice-—”whatever her name is”-—must be going ballistic.
Does President Trump ever “allow” or “clear the way” for the courts to render their decisions?
Of course not.
Apparently, when it comes to the executive and judicial branches separation of powers is a one-way arrangement.
Justice Kwame X Mustafa Skyhook Jackson?
Justice Kwame X Mustafa Skyhook Jackson?
Yeah, that’s her......lol.
Supreme Court Hands Trump Landmark Victory in 91 Year Constitutional Battle
Big League Politics ^ | JUL 27, 2026 | N/A
Posted on 7/27/2026, 6:14:02 PM by SharpRightTurn
President Donald Trump secured one of the biggest constitutional victories of his presidency after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 91 year old precedent that had limited a president’s authority to remove officials from so called “independent” federal agencies.
In a 6 to 3 ruling, the Court held that presidents have the constitutional authority to remove officials serving in executive branch agencies, striking down key parts of the Court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. The ruling immediately gives Trump the authority to remove Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat whose case became the central test of the administration’s push to restore executive power.
The decision is expected to reshape the federal government by strengthening presidential control over agencies responsible for labor policy, consumer protection, workplace discrimination, aviation safety, financial regulation, and other executive functions.
Chief Justice John Roberts made the Court’s position unmistakable.
“If anything more is left of Humphrey’s, we overrule it.”
The ruling effectively ends nearly a century of legal precedent that allowed Congress to shield certain executive branch officials from being fired by the president.
Conservative legal analyst Ben Dyke called the decision a “bombshell,” adding, “This is historic.”
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