The Republican appointees are almost certain to overturn a 90-year precedent, as Trump wants. Pushing back, Sotomayor told DOJ: “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.”
Justice Sotomayor is exactly right—Trump (and his rubber stamp SCOTUS) have assumed that their self-interests override nearly a century of Supreme Court decisions … without any justification whatsoever. The Right is right eternally?
Do you think that Sotomayor goes home after work and just rage screams into a pillow for a while every night? I'm thinking about taking that up, and I don't have to listen to this insanity in the courtroom all day.
Yes, their composure astounds me. They endure this puerile rhetoric in court, doubtlessly endure reading of the latest presidential corruption and infantile pronouncements, then must be “measured” … I could not survive.
There is a simple clause in article I that grants congress the power “To make Rules for the Government” that the current majority thinks doesn’t apply to the rules they have made regarding hiring and firing rules. It takes pretty arrogant mendacity to claim there is a way around that simple clause. The Executive is required to execute the rules. Congress makes the rules. There is a clear intent to this structure. These fools are trying to wreck that structure.
The end result of this is going to be, everyone is fired every 4 years (or 8). Imagine the next Dem president coming in, firing _every single republican in the executive branch_ for not being "aligned with the presidents preferred policies" only to have the next GOP president come in and do exactly the same thing. We'll lose all the valuable expertise and domain knowledge specific to civil service and no one but the dregs or loyalists will be willing to work at the federal level anymore.
Can someone direct me to the exit for this timeline? I want a different simulation.
We know exactly what the end result is going to be, because it's what the result was before 1880. And what it was is a corrupt, incompetent federal government full of hackish political patronage hires. Credit Mobilier after Credit Mobilier stamping on a human face, forever.
Who knew that a random Netflix show about James Garfield was going to be the most prescient cultural icon of 2025?
given that republicans have been trying to destroy the productive capacity of the federal government for forty years now, everything you note will happen is INTENTIONAL. This is how they WANT the federal government to (not) function.
Again, predictable. The SCOTUS elite is willing to endow the presidency with near total powers … while purposefully avoiding reviewing this particular president. The Master Race dream soiled by a vindictive, infantile master.
It sounds like we are heading towards discontinuous government. Every 4 or 8 years when the presidency changes everyone, top to bottom, must resign or face firing. Trump's destruction of the civil service has set the table and the Supreme Court is about to hand him the coup de grace. No continuity, any residual competence if at all must be submissive to the will of the executive. All hail to his majesty.....as long as he is republican.
This is the ultimate penalty for the SCOTUS nonsense. Unstable, partisan governing, focused on which changes best position the majority to keep the majority, not how best to govern.
As though the Office of the Presidency is insufficiently authoritarian already. The President tries to smear his detractors by breaking into a psychiatrist's office and purloining private medical files, destroys Glass Steagall, starts wars because he can, and personally stops all prosecution of WallSt psychopaths. Chump did not fall out of the sky. The left's collapse began with guys like Paul Clement and Jay Sekulow, working the judicial refs for decades.
Finally, I have to wonder whether the Roberts Court is so convinced of its superiority, AND so lazy, as to leave all difficult decisions up to Trump and his illuminating justifications.
SMH there will really never be any fixing this country after this corrupt court and the Trump's fascist regime, they will give trump absolute power by the end, they have already let him steal multiple elections with musks voting counter manipulation, as well as okaying the blatant ultra gerrymandering maps to eliminate democratic votes completely in some states. Not to mention they will give trump the okay to 'run' for a third rigged term without even blinking an eye.
Isn’t it time to form a plan to stop their deliberate actions to destroy America and all our freedoms US citizens have gained and enjoyed since 1776 and beyond; until 2016 when its laws were first attacked by that Administration then and now? How excited are you to turn the clock back to 1876. I had hoped we had evolved to be better than those thrives and murdered who landed on Plymouth Rock and stole this continent from its original inhabitants. So far I think history is repeating itself.
I’m not sure what point there is discussing the law, anymore. In terms of limiting ruling class power, it doesn’t exist in any practical way except as a temporary procedural bump in the road. All it does is give liberals the chance to ask “Wait, is that allowed?” so that the government can answer “Yes, now shut up.”
At some point, we’re going to have to stop asking what’s allowed, and decide what we’re going to allow.
Justice Sotomayor is exactly right—Trump (and his rubber stamp SCOTUS) have assumed that their self-interests override nearly a century of Supreme Court decisions … without any justification whatsoever. The Right is right eternally?
Do you think that Sotomayor goes home after work and just rage screams into a pillow for a while every night? I'm thinking about taking that up, and I don't have to listen to this insanity in the courtroom all day.
Yes, their composure astounds me. They endure this puerile rhetoric in court, doubtlessly endure reading of the latest presidential corruption and infantile pronouncements, then must be “measured” … I could not survive.
There is a simple clause in article I that grants congress the power “To make Rules for the Government” that the current majority thinks doesn’t apply to the rules they have made regarding hiring and firing rules. It takes pretty arrogant mendacity to claim there is a way around that simple clause. The Executive is required to execute the rules. Congress makes the rules. There is a clear intent to this structure. These fools are trying to wreck that structure.
*Puts on doomsday hat*
The end result of this is going to be, everyone is fired every 4 years (or 8). Imagine the next Dem president coming in, firing _every single republican in the executive branch_ for not being "aligned with the presidents preferred policies" only to have the next GOP president come in and do exactly the same thing. We'll lose all the valuable expertise and domain knowledge specific to civil service and no one but the dregs or loyalists will be willing to work at the federal level anymore.
Can someone direct me to the exit for this timeline? I want a different simulation.
We know exactly what the end result is going to be, because it's what the result was before 1880. And what it was is a corrupt, incompetent federal government full of hackish political patronage hires. Credit Mobilier after Credit Mobilier stamping on a human face, forever.
Who knew that a random Netflix show about James Garfield was going to be the most prescient cultural icon of 2025?
given that republicans have been trying to destroy the productive capacity of the federal government for forty years now, everything you note will happen is INTENTIONAL. This is how they WANT the federal government to (not) function.
Again, predictable. The SCOTUS elite is willing to endow the presidency with near total powers … while purposefully avoiding reviewing this particular president. The Master Race dream soiled by a vindictive, infantile master.
It sounds like we are heading towards discontinuous government. Every 4 or 8 years when the presidency changes everyone, top to bottom, must resign or face firing. Trump's destruction of the civil service has set the table and the Supreme Court is about to hand him the coup de grace. No continuity, any residual competence if at all must be submissive to the will of the executive. All hail to his majesty.....as long as he is republican.
This is the ultimate penalty for the SCOTUS nonsense. Unstable, partisan governing, focused on which changes best position the majority to keep the majority, not how best to govern.
I just wonder how the Chief is going to puzzle out the Federal Reserve Board cutout, while maintaining the new Ancien Regime.
As though the Office of the Presidency is insufficiently authoritarian already. The President tries to smear his detractors by breaking into a psychiatrist's office and purloining private medical files, destroys Glass Steagall, starts wars because he can, and personally stops all prosecution of WallSt psychopaths. Chump did not fall out of the sky. The left's collapse began with guys like Paul Clement and Jay Sekulow, working the judicial refs for decades.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/retirees-volunteering-election-democracy-study-health/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email: You may live longer fighting fascists
Thank you, Chris. And I
thank the 3 lady liberal
justices for their pushing
back on Sauer. I think
there will definitely be
some hard discussions
among all the court
before we know how it
ends.
Very scary
Finally, I have to wonder whether the Roberts Court is so convinced of its superiority, AND so lazy, as to leave all difficult decisions up to Trump and his illuminating justifications.
This is very bad news, to put it mildly. I don't suppose we can expect the Republican controlled Congress to enact legislation to minimize damage
No, we can't. But you knew that already.
SMH there will really never be any fixing this country after this corrupt court and the Trump's fascist regime, they will give trump absolute power by the end, they have already let him steal multiple elections with musks voting counter manipulation, as well as okaying the blatant ultra gerrymandering maps to eliminate democratic votes completely in some states. Not to mention they will give trump the okay to 'run' for a third rigged term without even blinking an eye.
Isn’t it time to form a plan to stop their deliberate actions to destroy America and all our freedoms US citizens have gained and enjoyed since 1776 and beyond; until 2016 when its laws were first attacked by that Administration then and now? How excited are you to turn the clock back to 1876. I had hoped we had evolved to be better than those thrives and murdered who landed on Plymouth Rock and stole this continent from its original inhabitants. So far I think history is repeating itself.
(Sigh)
I’m not sure what point there is discussing the law, anymore. In terms of limiting ruling class power, it doesn’t exist in any practical way except as a temporary procedural bump in the road. All it does is give liberals the chance to ask “Wait, is that allowed?” so that the government can answer “Yes, now shut up.”
At some point, we’re going to have to stop asking what’s allowed, and decide what we’re going to allow.