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NEWS: Supreme Court overrules a 90-year-old precedent and frees the president to fire independent agency heads The Supreme Court ruled today that President Trump can remove Federal Trade Commission members at will, and in doing so it overruled Humphrey's Executor, the 1935 decision that has protected independent agencies for nine decades. The case is Trump v. Slaughter, and it reshapes the federal bureaucracy. The fight began when Trump fired the FTC's two Democratic commissioners, Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, early in his second term. He did not claim cause. He simply said their service no longer fit his administration's priorities. Federal law says FTC commissioners can be removed only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance. Slaughter sued to get her job back and won below. The Court reversed. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, said the Constitution vests executive power in one president who must be able to remove the officers who wield that power on his behalf. Because the FTC clearly exercises executive power, he wrote, its commissioners answer to the president. Humphrey's Executor, he said, has long been a result in search of a rationale, and the Court let it go. The vote was 6 to 3. Roberts was joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Sotomayor dissented, joined by Kagan and Jackson. It's worth noting alongside the Cook decision handed down the same day. The Court protected the Federal Reserve's independence there while stripping it from the FTC here, drawing an explicit line around the central bank as a historical exception. So independent agencies lose their shield, but the Fed keeps its own.

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VoteHub projects that Oklahoma State Question 832 ($15 Minimum Wage) has failed.

Burning Man is spiritually Israeli

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

James Talarico had an inappropriate relationship with his staffer — who is almost a decade younger than him — and abused his power in the Texas leg to score her a taxpayer-funded job. Who’s surprised?

Quite the day in Idaho. We’re here interviewing people who have fled Washington state in recent years – over taxes, crime, and more.

I do not think you can appreciate the level of shitpost this is by the whitehouse. This is spectacular. You know exactly why they posted this.

November, here we come.

Fired up. Ready to go. It’s time to take back Texas.