Supreme Court Poised to Restore Constitution?

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Powerline 12/8/2025

Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, perhaps the most important case to come before the Court this term. The case tests the constitutionality of the “independent agencies” that Congress has established over the years–independent, because their commissioners are not under the control of the president.

The case arose when President Trump fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, not for cause, as authorized by the FTC statute, but because her service was “inconsistent with this Administration’s priorities.” Slaughter refused to leave office; hence the lawsuit.

Press accounts indicate that the Court’s conservative majority seemed inclined to side with the Administration. Thus, the New York Times: “Justices Seem Ready to Give Trump More Power to Fire Independent Government Officials.”

    The Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to make it easier for President Trump to fire independent government officials despite laws meant to insulate them from political pressure in what would be a major expansion of presidential power.

More: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/12/supreme-court-poised-to-restore-constitution.php

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'I really don't understand': Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson argues America should be run by bureaucrats!

WND 12/9/2025

Ketanji Jackson, Joe Biden's star appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court and already characterized by critics as the least qualified justice – ever – has made it clear she'd like America to be run by bureaucrats, not a president.

A technocracy, as described by constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.

He's a law professor and commentator. He's advised members of Congress on constitutional issues. He's even represented them on those same issues.

Jackson made her opinion clear in arguments Monday in a dispute over just exactly which bureaucrats President Donald Trump can remove from their positions.

A precedent, set in the Humphrey's Executor case decades ago, suggests there are some he cannot remove, but commentators concluded after the arguments that is likely to fall soon.

Turley explained the arguments "went poorly" for those who sought to sustain the 90-year-old precedent" that limits a president's power to fire members of independent commissions.

"As is increasingly becoming the case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stole the show with some of her comments on her view of the underlying constitutional issues. She suggested that 'experts' in the Executive Branch generally should not be subject to termination by a president," he explained.

"It is a virtual invitation for a technocracy rather than a democracy."

More: https://www.wnd.com/2025/12/i-really-dont-understand-supreme-court-justice-ketanji/