Win for Rebecca Slaughter as court rules commissioners may not be dismissed by a president without cause
A divided US appeals court on Tuesday allowed the US federal trade commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, to resume her role at the agency, as Donald Trump tries to remove her from office.
In a 2-1 decision, the District of Columbia circuit court of appeals allowed a lower court decision in favor of Slaughter to take effect, rejecting the Trump administration’s request to delay the ruling during its appeal.
The court said that FTC commissioners may not be fired by a president without cause, saying that the law on this point had been clear for nearly a century.
Happy to see the Separation of Powers limping along. It’s really our only hope, now.
Supreme Court: I’ll allow it…
As a treat
There was still one judge willing to let Trump do whatever he wants
Tribunal of Six:
*Junta of 6
a divided US appeals court
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… the law on this point has been clear for nearly a century.
Good gravy, what a mess…
Trump is the dude that never puts in a change request, so everyone has to roll back the fuck ups.
The republican traitor filth must be dealt with.
There is no Republican Party any more. They are as dead as the Whigs, and should only be referred to in a scholarly, historical context.
This is the MAGA Party, and doesn’t follow any of the foundational tenets of the Republican Party - Smaller govt, lower taxes, fiscal/economic responsibility, family values, etc. It is an entirely separate party whose foundational tenets include treason, corruption, racism, misogyny, pedophilia, genocide, intolerance, and more.
Our country is being destroyed by MAGA. The Republican Party is responsible for the rise of MAGA, but we need to make sure MAGA gets full blame for the destruction they have caused, and the full punishment they deserve. MAGAs need to understand that when they are forced from power this time, they won’t be forgiven like Biden did. They will feel the wrath of Liberty. There is no Republican Party any more. They are as dead as the Whigs, and should only be referred to in a scholarly, historical context.
This is the MAGA Party, and doesn’t follow any of the foundational tenets of the Republican Party - Smaller govt, lower taxes, fiscal/economic responsibility, family values, etc. It is an entirely separate party whose foundational tenets include treason, corruption, racism, misogyny, pedophilia, genocide, intolerance, and more.
Our country is being destroyed by MAGA. The Republican Party is responsible for the rise of MAGA, but we need to make sure MAGA gets full blame for the destruction they have caused, and the full punishment they deserve. MAGAs need to understand that when they are forced from power this time, they won’t be forgiven like Biden did. They will feel the wrath of Liberty.
You’re too kind to the Republican Party. “Family values” was always code for misogyny, homophobia and intolerance. “Fiscal responsibility” was always about cutting services to the most needy while indulging the corruption of the wealthy and powerful, and it privileged whites. Indeed there was no real fiscal responsibility: Republicans ran up the national debt every time while Democrats brought it down. Republican racism has been a thing for a long time, and white supremacists have never been unwelcome in the party. The authoritarian Christian impulse was always hovering around waiting for its moment, and corrupt evangelicals always had close relations with the GOP. Pedophilia isn’t new but just newly known about.
The Republican Party was consciously working its way towards MAGA for decades. And MAGA is all the same people. All that has happened is they have been given license to come out in the open with their real intentions, and they’ve dropped the noble-sounding goals, which were mostly dogwhistles and euphemisms anyway.
Indeed there was no real fiscal responsibility: Republicans ran up the national debt every time while Democrats brought it down.
I’ve heard this described as the Republicans being two “Santas”. Democrats used to be shoehorned as “tax and spend liberals”. So, one “Santa”, because you get better social programs but you also have to pay taxes for them…Republicans started handing out tax breaks while still spending the same or more money on all of their defense contracting, military industrial complex and pork barrel bullshit as well…becoming two “Santas” where you still get all of your kickbacks from daddy government, but you also get tax decreases.
MAGA is Republican is MAGA. They don’t get to wash their hands of this.
They aren’t washing their hands, they are now all MAGA, and all the treason, corruption, and pedophilia that is the MAGA foundation is on their heads.
If you don’t glue them together, then someday we’ll have lots of Republicans claiming they were never MAGAs, and were always just poor, stepped on Republicans, as much victims of MAGA as anyone else.
Make them stake their position NOW. Which are you, Republican or MAGA?
All of that but add in how we don’t have a Democrat party anymore either. From pathetic empowering of fascism for decades leading up to this, and utter servitude to Israel, to dark-money being used to reinforce liberal, capitalist ideals and zionism, to the complete lack of opposition against actual, real fascist takeover of our country, I think we can throw away the entire bathwater, baby and all.
I hope some of them will actually feel the wrath, but we know that simply wont happen.
It will happen if we want to take our nation back from corrupt traitors and pedophiles.
The actions of the republicans party have always matched MAGA. They just used to lie more.
They’re not lying any less, they are just lying about different things. (And have gone mask-off on some of the things they used to lie about)
Republicans haven’t been Republicans since Reagan.
Hoover.
They are one and the same. Disgusting traitor filth to be subjugated.
They are one and the same
Right on!
Disgusting traitor filth
Absolutely…
…to be subjugated
Errm… What?
…to be subjugated
Errm… What?
Clearly the solution is to send conservatives to work in the mines.
It’s them or us. Choose. Fucking wake up.
So my only options are to be a fascist, or to… Subjugate them? Those are the two options huh?
Your choices are to accept reality or continue denying it. Open your fucking eyes.
So you think our only option is to enslave conservatives? I just want to make sure I understand… As I said, I was with you until the “subjugate them” part. Maybe we are using two different definitions of the word?
Except they LOVE being Republicans, they think it’s honorable, so TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEM.
In the future Dems should only refer to the MAGA Party. They should hold a big press conference, and unilaterally declare the Republican Party dead, and rebrand it as the MAGA Party, and then STICK TO IT.
Make them go apeshit demanding respect, and their name back, and just casually dismiss it and keep calling it the MAGA Party.
The Right has been doing it to the Dems for years, pissing them off by calling them the Democrat Party. I once saw a Republican derail Schmuck Schumer just by calling it the Democrat party, and Schmuck threw a tantrum, instead of sticking to the debate, as the Republican sat back and smirked in self-satisfaction.
Now we have perfect opportunity to hit them back, but much much harder. Force them to defend one or the other, which will only piss off one or the other.
So much winning!
Is it time to sic the Jan 6 hostages on the appeals court?
I’m afraid that most have completely gotten away with it. Some were even rewarded for it.
They want to set up a commission to give them monetary reparations.
Now begins the process whereby some low level in the White House will be tasked with watching her every move and combing through her entire life and history to find a cause to fire her.
Nah they will go to friendly supreme Court
Bets on if this survives the SC?
