The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission are unconstitutional and overturned a 90-year-old decision that allowed Congress to shield members of certain independent agencies from being fired by the president at will.
The decision from the high court expands the president’s power over many independent boards and commissions, which Congress had insulated from political pressure by saying their members could only be removed by the president for cause.
We have a king. You think Republicans are just going to meekly leave power?
They didn’t last time.
Yay, More tax dollars for Supreme Court security details!!! USA USA USA!!!
So this means the next Democrat is going to immediately fire every Trump appointee right?
… right?
Basically that’s now what can happen. Any agency under the Executive Branch. But seems like Congress f’ed up by putting so many branches under the Executive branch to begin with. Time for Congress to fix that, lol but that’s never going to happen.
They all (6) believe there will never be another non Republican president.
They know that if there is another Democrat president, they won’t have the guts to use their power to do what needs to be done.
Like say agencies that insure the integrity of voting… ☠️
Can the President remove SCOTUS justices now? Just asking for the next Democrat president.
Assuming there will be a Democratic president, I doubt they will undo anything. What administration would be willing to give up power?
Democratic one? Wouldn’t be the first time.
Look at you thinking there will be a “next Democrat president”
I know right? Maybe a non-Republican in the next 100 years.
After all the 1000 year Reich only lasted 12 years.
That’s making me hopeful, as year 12 of maga is in 2 years.
The 3rd Reich was only stopped by other countries stepping in and forcibly removing them. That’s not happening this time.
Functionally it will be either a Republican or a Diet Republican.
For all the dipshit fake leftists who still openly brag that they “refused to vote for genocide” by boycotting Kamala in 2024,
Think of all the millions of additional deaths this asshole’s rampage of all working class protections is gonna cause.
And that’s in addition to Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, brown Americans, Americans with disabilities, everyone who relied on US foreign AID, etc.
You objectively chose the pro-genocide option.
You know that was a bullshit excuse, right?
I get being disenchanted with only being able to choose harm reduction, but prioritizing self-righteousness over harm reduction isn’t the flex some people think it is.
Where’s that lady that ran green for president now?
Oh she’ll mysteriously reappear when it’s time to fuck over another Democratic candidate.
Because this is exactly what good third party leaders do, they vanish for four years and do absolutely nothing to build an actual party at the local and state levels. Only to reappear just in time to run a doomed presidential campaign.
Bingo
Back to sucking Putin’s toes.
“We can take votes away from Kamala Harris.”
No mention of Trump. Green MAGA.
I think she’s working on an organic gardening cookbook with mostly borscht and vodka recipes.
That sounds important
She should stay on that instead of running for president again.
And the folks throwing away their votes in protest of the two-party system are shooting themselves and all of us in the collective foot.
So a candidate doesn’t tickle their tummy enough, too bad. Should still choose them over a candidate that wants to kill brown people, and LGBTQ people, and the poor, and the disabled, etc.
I mean I get it, the two party system sucks, but it is something that can only be changed with time and influence, and a lot of it. It’s a slow and gradual thing. The only way out of the system is to go through it.
You do know that third party is not the reason anyone lost right?
Like the rights third party vote is like 4x the size of the lefts, most leftists do vote Dem. Y’all just love to foam out the mouth at leftists cuz you can’t not eat DNC bullshit trying to keep the party right of center. You treat the DNC like an infallible god and get mad when people criticize them for bad policy. But yeah, clearly it’s the .4% of the population who voted PSL’s fault that the DNC lost, definitely not the DNC who won big with Obama’s message of “change” and then decide to run with “nothing will fundamentally change.” Boy what a way to energize the voter base. Don’t worry, Dick Cheney will help!
Boy what a way to energize the voter base. Don’t worry, Dick Cheney will help!
You don’t even have the right fucking Cheney.
I’m so tired of this shit, y’all are not invested in this at all, you just want to stir shit up.
Some of us have to live this shit every day.
I know it wasn’t the right Cheney sorry for sarcasm, but like, dude the DNC fucked itself, and has been since after Obama won. (At least they decided to change their stance on gay marriage so he could win re-election, last time we got any concessions from them.)
The point is people need to stop praising the DNC like they’re infallible. They are the ones to blame. It is their job to make people want to vote and they’ve absolutely killed voter enthusiasm since Obama. Do you know how many normie ass people I’ve heard talk about how they haven’t voted since Obama because what’s the point?
Who here is praising the DNC like that? That’s a straw man.
People who are blaming third party instead of blaming the DNC are? They attack people who criticize it, even though those criticizing it are doing so cuz they want them to run someone they could actually vote for.
That doesn’t include the number that abstained entirely.
Also you didn’t include any other 3rd party numbers
Yeah cuz I am too lazy to go look this shit up again because yall don’t care anyways and are gonna continue to try and fight the people who are trying to help.
From studies I’ve seen before the election, progressive left literally votes for Dem more than any other ideological block for dems by % total (which includes non-voters).
And sorry it’s been years but iirc it was like .4% for PSL and 1.1% for green? And then I think .5% constitution and like 4% for libertarian. You can go look up the numbers from like, even the 2016 election which was the largest 3rd party vote I think? Idr anymore. I just remember it being about 3-4x total for the right vs left 3rd parties put together showing the left really doesn’t have a 3rd party problem but that doesn’t stop the DNC from attacking it to stop people from wanting progressive policy since they refuse to run any. They’ve sued to get 3rd party taken off the ballot in a lot of states, while trying to say republicans are anti-democratic. (Which like duh they are too, but like… if that’s gonna be y’all’s message maybe don’t do anti-democratic shit like refuse to have primaries, give a “victory fund” to a candidate before primaries, and sue to remove 3rd parties from elections.)
Woah, I’m not used to being remembered in the list of people being fucked over. Thanks.
Really like your username
People who don’t like hit songs by the village people?
Let’s not forget his handling of Covid19 either.
Sucks that the Democrats couldn’t do some bare ass minimum ‘genocide is bad’ messaging if they wanted those votes.
Not that I think it deters anyone who is here to crash out over criticism of the Democratic party, but I voted Harris and live in a blue county in a blue state. I can control literally nothing that [general you] are mad about.
I’ve fallen for it three times now. Was promised that Hillary was the only one who could win. Was promised that Biden was a stop gap and they were working on finding better candidates. But then Kamala had to be candidate because whatever. On and on and on.
Democrat voters are finally waking up, and the DSA is making strides and hopefully we will have different party by the 2028.
Otherwise, with the VRA and climate collapse, I mean really looks like things HAVE to get worse before they can get better.
I’ve fallen for it three times now. Was promised that Hillary was the only one who could win.
What do you think elections are? You’re upset because someone promised you a person would win an election, and then they didn’t?
Grow the fuck up. Get used to it.
That’s where you’re at? Blaming people who are fed up with the US’ god-awful system? Mad that they didn’t vote for the same party that enables this crap?
Up here in Canada, we have a progressive option and I am so fucking mad that people refused to vote for them. This “enable the conservatives masquerading as the center” thing is old and tired, and I don’t give a fuck anymore. I’ve never fallen for it, and I’m so disappointed in people that tell me that it’s my fault despite being one of the few people actually doing the right thing.
I will never blame people for sending a message and doing their best to use what little voice they have. The Democrats couldn’t even beat Trump and all they had to do was admit to one of the most obvious genocides in history. The people who refused to vote for them are well aware of what happened, and as far as I’m concerned their names are clean.
Be mad at tens of millions of people who actively and cheerfully voted for Trump. Be mad at the “moderates” who tell everyone to suck it up and vote slightly-less-conservative but who will never make any effort to make a progressive compromise. Don’t be mad at the people who didn’t want their name marked under “actively supporting a genocide”. It’s not their fault the US is a flaming shithole that deserves nothing less than to be thrown into the fucking sun.
Go after the people actively causing the damage or go find a tall bridge over fast moving water.
You’re wasting your breath. Ppl like OP bitch and scream about ppl abstaining but a Trump was going to happen eventually because the system is inherently flawed and Democrats wanted to keep it that way. You literally have leader of the Democratic caucus mad that voters are voting in more leftist candidates.
Like you said it’s not a failure of the voters, it’s a failure of the party
It is a failure of voters, too, but it’s a failure of the Republican voters and the “centrists” who fight hard to make sure that nothing ever gets done.
Abstaining to vote for one of two pro genocide candidates is not a pro genocide position. no matter how the corporate dems try to shift blame leftists are not Democrats and to get our vote you have to male concessions. The sooner the dems stop foaming at the mouth and move left for once the sooner our material conditions will improve.
Stop caping for the orphan crushing machine and blaming the people who demand we crush less orphans.
It’s hilarious that you don’t realize that’s absolutely no longer an option anymore unless you overthrow the entire government and institute a new one.
You didn’t teach anyone a lesson - you just removed your own ability to influence the direction of the government completely in the future.
I mean it seems like NYC has learned the lesson?
Yup I personally did that by voting PSL instead of picking one of the corporate neoliberals that serve the continuation of american fascism and neocolonialism. Very keen analysis. Its crazy you sycophants think I had enough power to erase the facade of democracy in america but not to affect the party platform. You can call me accelerationist but not fascist or a genocide supporter and I’m okay with that.
BTW how is keeping your picks accountable going, does complaining about leftists on the internet help stop weak willed dems from caving on the save america act
Stupid fuckwit.
Its socialism or fascism. Welcome to the 20s
Listen, I don’t have it in me to bother going back to find the research but a few things:
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Without any of the research, maybe don’t blame people for how they vote but blame the DNC as its literally their job to energize people to vote by having policies that make people want to vote.
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Without research, people voting for PSL/Green and still voting Dem/progressive down ballot is a whole lot better than the alternative of zero votes. Yelling at people they have to vote how you tell them isn’t gonna make anything happen. Let people vote how they want.
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With research, “Progressives” vote more consistently for democrats than literally any other ideological group by % total population of said group (meaning they looked at non-voters as well)
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With research, 3rd party leans HEAVILY right for votes. I forget the exact number but I think it was about 4x as many in libertarian/constitution compared to Green/PSL.
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Fuck off with attacking people who literally just… could not stand for voting to commit genocide? I mean you shouldn’t be attacking the left at all, but specifically people who morally refuse to vote for someone who wants more genocide? Really? Anti-anti-genocide isn’t far from anti-antifa. Which like, oof.
See that’s the thing. None of us were voting to commit genocide. We were voting for president.
I was about to ask what the fuck kind of dumbass statement is saying voting for president isn’t voting for policies but the party of “nothing will fundamentally change” doesn’t really have policy so I guess that tracks for a Dem.
You should try paying attention to politics before you criticize the politics. Like, let’s help you get better arguments. It bugs me when people I agree with use inaccurate information (like the democrats not having policy) when we can criticize them for far more accurate and heinous things.
It really is that simple, you are voting for a person not their platform. The platform is the advertisement of what they might do, but we all know most campaign promises are worthless. If you are just looking at a candidate’s platform and not their history you’re missing most of the relevant story.
If the genocide in Gaza was my only factor I was voting on, like a lot of y’all right wingers on here seem to think it should be (strange how the sibboleths in your language match theirs) I’d first ask which candidates are likely to win. Among those, which are likely to end the genocide. None? Okay which are likely to slow it, which will ignore it, and which will make it worse. Then I ranked the candidates and got to the same spot as just saying “fuck Krasnov I ain’t voting for anyone he likes or who likes him”
Oh right I forgot “you have to vote who you think will win”
So, you are wrong and voted wrong too.
Did you think Harris could actually win? Really?
And my point in saying they didn’t have policy is their literal ads sent to my house said exactly “nothing will fundamentally change” for Biden. And Kamala made it clear she was going to do the exact same shit as she refused to break from Biden on basically anything important. Sure they had policy but it was all fuckin garbage. The DNC lost because they refuse to do something to try and win. People don’t want to put up with “at least I am not a literal clone of Hitler, even if I’m just as bad.” People want a candidate worth voting for. That’s why I’ve heard tons of kids tell me their parents haven’t voted at all since Obama. Or other normie ass people I know have said the same. The DNC has shot itself in the face repeatedly since, and Biden honestly only won because his name was tied to Obama and people forgot he was tied to Obama to try and and anchor him to centrist ass bullshit, and that Biden not for progress or change at all. People refuse to keep voting for a race to the bottom in who can put out a worst candidate because that’s why we are where we are at.
Look at NYC, that is how you energize the voting base.
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So let me get this straight. An independent agency can now be swayed by administration? As is now they are not considered independent agency. SCOTUS is literally rewriting the dictionary.
Not quite. The court’s position is that there cannot exist an independent agency. They don’t see any provision for such a thing in the constitution. And if you take a purely literal originalist interpretation of the constitution, they’re right. Nothing in there says anything about “independent agencies”. Such independence was established ~140 years ago by precedent. So they’re not rewriting the dictionary, but they’re certainly rewriting a core legal doctrine that has been in place for >50% of the nations existence.
In my opinion, assuming there’s ever actually an opportunity to fix this mess, a key change we’ll need to make is that there needs to be a higher standard for the supreme court to overturn its own precedent. Like, maybe the vote needs to be unanimous or something. This activist court has been decades in the making, and is radically rewriting much of the foundational doctrine under which the country has operated for generations.
This is what I don’t understand either. John Roberts said:
Subordinates who exercise the President’s power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the President, and the President to the people
Like, what? What sense does this make? Does this not objectively make it NOT independent? Does this not objectively destroy the separation of powers? Why is an independent agency accountable to the president? Aren’t they there to serve the people only and not one person in the white house? How are they exercising the “presidents power?” The president(very purposefully) is not supposed to have that power. They do. That’s… kinda the point. Isn’t that like the definition of an independent agency? I don’t understand what he’s even trying to say here.
The idea is that the president works with these people and can’t be forced to work with people who will not work with him. So the fix is for Congress to move these agencies back under the legislative branch instead of the executive branch, or you are just going to see more seesawing of people getting fired every 4-8 years even more than we currently have.
Reads like totalitarian propaganda.
Of course it makes no sense, it’s just a word salad to make it look like there’s some justification behind it, when in reality it’s just another step into autocracy.
I’m not a praying man because I am agnostic. But i am doing a sign of the cross for my American brothers and sisters.
The christians are a big part of why we’re here. The Heritage Foundation with their openly plotted religious coup supported by the talibangelical fundamentalists and prosperity gospel crowds.
Why would you curse them?
Alternative to CBS.
Here’s one from NPR also. Do we not like CBS here? It was just the first I saw reported.
CBS is owned by David Ellison, Larry Ellison’s son, and they have been systematically purging anything remotely critical of Trump or conservatism/Nazi ideology from the network. They are not to be relied upon or trusted as a news source and should be categorized right next to Fox News.
Ellison canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the number one late night show, and we shall not forget. I regularly pass over everything CBS now.
Ah, thanks. Noted.
While CBS isn’t as much of a propaganda mill as Fox News or Newsmax yet, there’s a few reasons why a source such as NPR, BBC, ABC, NBC, or Reuters is preferable whenever possible:
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In 2024, Paramount (the owner of CBS) announced its intention to merge with Skydance, a media company majority-owned by David and Larry Ellison, right-wing Trump supporters.
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After the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Trump sued Paramount, claiming that the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris intentionally cast her in a favorable light with the goal of influencing the election (despite it being no different to how they had edited candidate interviews for prior elections). To ensure the merger would be approved under the second Trump administration, Paramount paid Trump $16 million. When Steven Colbert called out the settlement as being a bribe on his show, CBS cancelled
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In October 2025, Paramount Skydance bought the newsletter of right-wing journalist Bari Weiss for $150 million as a talent acquisition, installing her as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News with the goal of making CBS more right-wing.
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In December, she delayed the release of a 60 Minutes episode about the mega prison in El Salvador for the purpose of adding more pro-Trump content to it. She has also pushed for content at the network to be more “balanced” by including more pro-government content, such as by asking for the 60 Minutes episode on the Minnesota ICE raids to contain more depictions of protestor violence. Additional details on her tenure at the network are listed with sources in her Wikipedia article.
When also accounting for firings at CBS of journalists not willing to adjust their reporting, it’s a clear sign that the network’s output is being deliberately manipulated to expand right-wing influence. As Paramount Skydance is about to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN will also be at risk of reporting interference in favor of Trump.
They cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The Colbert Report ended after democrats bribed Stephen Colbert to switch parties and became much less funny in my opinion.
Thanks for the correction. 👍
No problem!
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Lemme guess, the 6-3 regular?
The justices, in a 6-3 decision powered by the court’s conservative majority, invalidated tenure protections for FTC members enacted by Congress more than a century ago. In doing so, the justices overruled the court’s pivotal decision in a case called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. Trump last year dismissed the FTC’s Rebecca Slaughter over policy differences
Yup.
in the USA, there is nothing more constitutional than a king
Checks and what now?
The elites thought checks and balances both refered to things in their bank accounts.
Ah, thought for a second we were talking about firing the president.
He can fire this dick
