@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
2026-06-30 17:24 UTC
Ninety-one years. That is how long Humphrey's Executor stood — the rule that a president cannot simply fire the people meant to check him.
Monday, in a 6-3 vote, 6 justices struck the match. Trump v. Slaughter. They let him fire an FTC commissioner without cause and torched the precedent that kept independent agencies independent.
Justice Gorsuch — a Trump appointee — wrote it into the record himself: the fourth branch's powers "have just been reassigned to the President."
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org 2026-06-30 18:01
When the man Trump seated on the bench warns you the brakes are gone, the question is no longer whether the car is speeding. It is who it hits. How is the warning coming from his own appointee, and we're meant to call it routine? #Politics #News #Journalism #SCOTUS #Democracy #Resist #USPol #Fediverse #Newsletter #Trans #LGBTQ #Solidarity ↳ Full piece, with the FCC thread and what to call your senators about → https://twp.ai/4hrwFW