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If Trump embodies the theory of the “unitary executive,” it’s because conservative jurists like John Roberts and Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have
— along with their Republican-appointed colleagues
— effectively rewritten the Constitution to allow for the exercise of virtually unaccountable power by Republican presidents.
Yes, you can attribute some of the worst of this administration to the specific authoritarian vision of Trump and his allies.
But a good deal of…

Opinion | Now Can We Stop Talking About What a Maverick Trump Is?
The president is a normie Republican. Stop thinking otherwise.

Supreme Court declines AR-15 ban appeal that Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch would've taken (Jordan Rubin/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-ar-15-ban-maryland-assault-weapons-rcna210358
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p67#a250602p67

I tend to watch Supreme Court rulings, given my old life in the law biz. I'm surprised at the way the ruling split on the just published FELICIANO v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION case:
Reversed and remanded.
 Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Alito, Kagan, and Jackson, JJ., joined.

Ninth Circuit Court ruled that the First Amendment does not guarantee this spa’s right to turn away trans women.
The Spa’s Anti-Trans Ban is Not Protected By the First Amendment
Suck on that, Justice Alito!
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ninth-c…

Ninth Circuit Court Rules a Spa’s Anti-Trans Ban is Not Protected By the First Amendment
The First Amendment does not guarantee this spa’s right to turn away trans women, the court ruled.

I tend to watch Supreme Court rulings, given my old life in the law biz. I'm surprised at the way the ruling split on the just published FELICIANO v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION case:
Reversed and remanded.
 Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Alito, Kagan, and Jackson, JJ., joined.

The Supreme court ruled
in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
that the Constitution did not grant the president an “illimitable power of removal,”
at least over certain types of officials.
This included the head of the Federal Trade Commission, whose firing by President Franklin Roosevelt had sparked the case.
Humphrey’s Executor stood basically untouched for decades, until Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito – both of whom had previously served in the exe…

Supreme Court ignores precedent instead of overruling it in allowing president to fire officials whom Congress tried to make independent
Can the president fire leaders of more than 50 independent agencies overseen by Congress because he wants to? The Supreme Court may say yes, upending decades of constitutional law.