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Strike III for EU-US data transfers
The US Supreme Court has just ruled the FTC isn't independent of the President - and our entire data deal with America was built on the promise that it was.
thatprivacyguy.com/blog/strike…
#gdpr #adequacy #ftc #schrems #law #surveillance #dataprivacyframework #dpf #scotus #adequacy #compliance
❝ Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a 49-page dissent that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Today,” she wrote, “the Court discards” the “democratic regime” created by the Constitution “in favor of one that distorts the structure of Government to fit the majority’s theory of unitary, total executive control. The result,” she concluded, “is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before.”
scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-a…
#SCOTUS #dictatorship #fascism #FTC
The justices ruled in the case of former #FTC member #RebeccaSlaughter, whom #Trump fired WITHOUT cause despite a provision of #federal #law that requires a reason. The logic of the decision extends to other agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where Trump also has fired board members.
#law #Independence #ExecutivePower #HumphreysExecutor #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #democracy
There was already chaos in the concept of independ agencies. The SCOTUS ruling was about restoring order. The ruling talked extensively about this.
For decades they've grappled with the contradiction that supposedly independent agencies were still under the president, reliant on the office, pulling from his treasury, interfacing with his regulatory processes, etc. And yet, somehow independent?
There's the chaos we've seen, those unavoidable conflicts of interest.
As the Court wrote, the Fed doesn't function in the mold of the FTC and other agencies. It's not pseudo-independent but pseudo-governmental.
NOTE: Evidently the notion of an independent federal agency has been squashed
From NPR.org: Supreme Court cements Trump's power over agencies long considered independent
However apparently the #FTC is a different matter
#SCOTUS EXPANDS Trump’s power to fire officials, overturning nearly century-old precedent
SCOTUS Monday backed Trump’s firing of a member of the #FederalTradeCommission, a substantial win for the admin’s unprecedented effort to consolidate #power within the #ExecutiveBranch that will have sweeping implications for parts of the government #Congress intended to operate with #independence from presidential #politics.
