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The ruling is the most consequential case for the Fed’s future, for now fending off the politicization of an institution that’s responsible for being a technocratic steward of the #US #economy. In the end, the decision — which came months after the court struck down Trump’s sweeping emergency #tariffs — suggests that the longstanding principle of #independence for the #Fed was a line that not even #Trump could cross.
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.
#SCOTUS allows #LisaCook to remain at #Fed in another loss for #Trump
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Trump’s attempt to immediately fire #FederalReserve Governor Lisa Cook.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for a 5-4 majority.
#law #Independence #economy #democracy
cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/li…
Good
#SCOTUS rebuffs #AlanDershowitz $300 million suit against #CNN
The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive the attorney’s #defamation lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of remarks he made while defending #Trump during his 2020 #impeachment.
Justices Neil #Gorsuch & #ClarenceThomas dissented from the majority decision, saying legal standards for public figures who claim defamation should be reconsidered.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress
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YES!!!!!!
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#SCOTUS Monday declined to take up an appeal from #Trump over a $5 million verdict & finding that he sexually abused & defamed #EJeanCarroll, a decision that means Trump will now HAVE TO PAY the magazine columnist.
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#RapistInChief #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #defamation
A contracts take on Landor: In short, if Spending Clause enactments give rise to only contractual obligations, then they come with a duty of good faith and fair dealing. States violate that duty through not training or overseeing agents.
#law #contracts #SCOTUS #Landor #ConstitutionalLaw
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There Ought To Be a Law . . . Review Article About Landor | ContractsProf Blog
I write about the intersection of contracts law and constitutional law. It is no surprise that I was drawn to Justice Gorsuch’s theory (which foundJeremy Telman (ContractsProf Blog)
Yeah. Sure. Whatever.
#Iran & #US agree to halt attacks & renew “talks”
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Trump #law #Congress #WarPowers #economy #MarketManipulation #InsiderTrading #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #MiddleEast #inflation #oil #EnergyCrisis
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The #Trump admin imposed #sanctions last year against Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the #InternationalCriminalCourt. Now, she & 2 other judges are suing Trump & his admin, claiming the penalties exceeded his authority.
The case, filed in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, is the latest effort to challenge what many experts have described as the Trump admin’s efforts to undermine #InternationalLaw.
#law #ICC #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny
nytimes.com/2026/06/24/world/e…
No, the piece gets it EXACTLY backwards. It's BECAUSE of what Congress wrote that the rulings came down that way.
The rulings where emphatically saying that the other branches could not ignore Congress.
The piece seems to admit that "technically" Congress wrote this law. Well, yeah. It Congress's technicalities aren't to be ignored.
This perl clutching is antisocial. The SCOTUS says Congress can't be ignored, and so we need to elect better congresspeople who fix the laws that the SCOTUS is deferring to.
Congress wrote these laws, not the Supreme Court, which is insisting on democracy, even if democracy keeps giving us crappy lawmakers.
#USPolitics #SCOTUS #law #democracy
Former #Trump admin #NationalSecurity adviser #JohnBolton pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally retaining classified information, sealing a deal with federal prosecutors that could allow him to avoid a prison term.
Bolton, who became an outspoken critic of Trump after serving in the Republican’s first admin, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 by US District Judge Theodore Chuang in Greenbelt, Maryland.
US Senator warns of #Trump admin plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied #immigrant #children
A Democratic US senator warns the Trump admin is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing #legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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NEW: OPB and ProPublica found that water from one of Oregon’s most iconic rivers, the Deschutes, is largely given away to wealthy landowners who are turning the high desert green with lush pastures and landscaping.
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#News #Oregon #Farming #Agriculture #Water #River #Drought #Law
Oregon Water Law Benefits Wealthy Landowners at Farmers’ Expense — ProPublica
In the high desert of Central Oregon, the Deschutes River is a lifeline for farmers and landowners — but a century-old water law entitles just a few thousand people to more than half of its volume.Emily Cureton Cook (ProPublica)
#SCOTUS went on a full blown #murder spree today
That is what happened
That is the current state of the state
Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em
#TheNewColossus
Short version—
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
#law #democracy #Trump #racism #WhiteSupremacy #immigration #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #WhiteChristianNationalism
