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A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.
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Isn’t SCOTUS an independent body? If so, does this green light their removal if a President wants to remove someone?
Congress can remove a justice with a majority vote in the house and a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate. This means you can’t actually remove a judge unless they lose support from within their own party, and the Republicans have shown that they wont go along with removal no matter what.
This means that in practice, the path forward is to add additional judges, so that the Republicans are a minority, and unable to do any damage.
What if they want to remove one as an “official act”?
I think this is all horrible, but I really want them to eat their own dog food.
So, not independent. Cool.
Fuckheads.
Not anymore — there is no way they’d have gone along with this if it was a Democrat swapping out officials to his every whim
I dunno who wrote this but most of the conservative justices seemed against it. Implying that if it is overturned a president could use it to make every commission independent jam in appointees with lifetime positions and no one could do anything about it.
They seem to understand they don’t have actual party support anymore.