The Supreme Court just gave Trump a massive unchecked promotion
Nearly a century of federal guardrails just evaporated in a single afternoon.
For 91 years, we operated under the quaint assumption that some federal agencies should exist to provide a check on presidential power. That’s gone now. The Supreme Court decided that presidents can basically fire whoever they want, whenever they want, regardless of how 'independent' an agency is supposed to be.
This basically turns the entire federal bureaucracy into an extension of the Oval Office. It’s the institutional equivalent of a boss firing anyone who dares to offer a second opinion. Forget those pesky rules about keeping agencies insulated from politics; if a president doesn't like the cut of your jib, you're out.
Power just moved a lot closer to the top, and the floor dropped out from under the referees.
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