Supreme Court on verge of using flawed theory to grant Trump unprecedented power: expert

[turbinetree]

By Travis Gettys
Published December 8, 2025 9:17 AM ET

The Supreme Court is poised to hear Trump v. Slaughter, a case that could fundamentally reshape the balance of power between the presidency and Congress.

At issue is whether President Donald Trump can fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will — a power the Constitution does not explicitly grant and which the Supreme Court unanimously rejected nearly a century ago, wrote New York Times columnist Kate Shaw, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Today’s Republican-appointed justices appear to be firmly under the sway of an a textual and a historic theory — the unitary executive theory — that demands complete presidential control over essentially every government agency and insists that the power to fire agency heads at will is an indispensable part of such control," Shaw wrote.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-v-slaughter/

I then 6 maga justices that gave a traitor immunity from the Espionage Act............so now he does whatever the hell he wants.........

And then the six oligarchs that fund the Heritage............

Joseph Coors kick started the fascist foundation .................never liked that beer.......
Koch's ..................$500,000 from Stalin to help with oil wells........also thought that Germany, Italy and Japan were just fine.......back in the day
Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein................grandfather was the maker of Schlitz Beer..............liked Grain Belt and Hamm's Beer
The Scaife Family-----------Richard Mellon Scaife died in 2014........ 1999 article in the Washington Post called him the “funding father of the Right.”
Barre Seid.............Tripp Lite, an electronics manufacturer specializing in surge protectors
The Bradley Family ............... Allen-Bradley company, which made its fortune manufacturing a wide range of electronic products.

Source: https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Power Mad Moron also is a Traitor, but IOKIYAR

From OP:

As FTC Commissioner Slaughter noted, at Trump's inauguration, the president was surrounded by executives from companies the FTC was actively litigating against.

"This, in a nutshell, is the reason to have agency independence," Shaw wrote. "It’s also the reason agency independence is so threatening to the sort of regime Mr. Trump appears to be trying to create, in which all of government is a mere extension of the president."

[turbinetree]

4. Anyone with some common sense can see what they are attempting to do...............I never want to hear from maga about

the rule of law..............people died on Bunker Hill to prevent this stuff.............I just can't wait to see what show these right wingers put out there come next June 17, 2025......................time for NO KINGS March.................just a thought.............

[GiqueCee]

6. WHAT...

... does IOKIYAR mean?

[InstantGratification]

8. ItsOkIfYouAreRepublican

[GiqueCee]

9. Thanks...

... though I'm not sure I can agree with the sentiment these days.

There really are TMA (TOO MANY ACRONYMS) doncha think? It's hard to keep up with 'em all. Is there a dictionary defining some of the more obscure ones?

[lavoosh99]

11. It's OK if you're a republican. nt

[newdeal2]

2. If a president can fire at will with no justification

Why can’t they hire the same way? Why go through the charade of Senate confirmations for these positions, cabinet members, even judges if they can do whatever they want.

[turbinetree]

3. Bingo.... they did on the Gorsuch conformation that just didn't care about the Advise and Consent.............remember

[Lovie777]

5. Judicial malpractice......

shithole has mental illness.

[Ursus Rex]

7. I knew Barre Seid decades ago when I worked at Tripp-Lite

... at least, as well as you can know the owner of the company where you work when he makes casual drop-bys to your desk and group. He never struck me as a hard-core RW guy but he WAS very involved in the production and repair/warranty stuff for the company right on the cusp of the dot com era. He used to walk around with a dmm (digital multimeter) and eyeglass pouch on his belt eating cashews. The only thing I knew of him giving money to was the Chicago Lyric Opera, they even had a rehearsal and set construction space on one floor of the building on North Orleans St.

[2na fisherman]

10. Supreme Court Makes Suicide Pact

So when will these MAGA "Justices" deliver an opinion which allows Trump to fire them at will? When this unitary executive theory is taken to its extreme, it will be the end of the Supreme Court as we know it. And the supreme law of the land will be whatever Trump says it is. So all the laws and rights stated in The Constitution can be ignored and replaced by Trump's executive orders. Sounds crazy, right? But the Supremes already granted him absolute immunity!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Striking, a win for conservative cronyism