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@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Trumps emergency appeal booting Dem appointees from the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent
This follows a prior grant allowing Trump to remove labor regulators (Trump v. Wilcox)
@courthousenews.bsky.social
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Trumpâs emergency appeal booting Dem appointees from the Consumer Product Safety Commission
— Kelsey Reichmann (@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T20:24:00.786Z
Apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent
This follows a prior grant allowing Trump to remove labor regulators (Trump v. Wilcox)
@courthousenews.bsky.social
The Court also sets new precedent about how to interpret non-precedential shadow docket decisions, basically saying that they're kinda-sorta-precedent when judges are deciding to use their "equitable" powers.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T20:26:39.521Z
#BREAKING: Over a dissenting opinion by Justice Kagan (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson), #SCOTUS clears the way for President Trump to remove members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, granting yet another emergency application:
— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T20:23:45.046Z
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Kagan cuts to the chase:
— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T20:26:59.966Z
"By means of [its repeated, unexplained grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration], this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."

WarGamer
(17,598 posts)Who thought Hillary was too... female... butter emails...
And Kamala who laughed funny or wasn't quite lily white...
You just turned Trump into the most consequential POTUS since... at least LBJ, possibly FDR.
I'm not one of the pessimists that say our Democracy is over or anything like that...
BUT the Courts themselves will be something that follows Democracy around for the next 20 years... after Trump replaces Alito and Thomas next summer.
Kid Berwyn
(21,514 posts)"By means of [its repeated, unexplained grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration], this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."
JCMach1
(28,822 posts)And pass new regulations concerning 'spoils'. This shit is straight out of 19th century.
Boomerproud
(8,876 posts)3 dissentions and 6 smirking justices saying "What are ya gonna do about it sis". There's no point in discussing it anymore without a remedy.