The Supreme Court ruling that the president can fire heads of independent agencies without cause may not seem like a big deal to most people. It certainly isn't getting a big reaction from the corporate media or even, as far as I have noticed so far, Democratic politicians. But it's disastrous.
The world is complicated. Making rules and regulations requires expertise, and it has to be reality based. People and businesses need to be able to put reasonable faith in the agencies that make those rules, and they need to know that the rules are going to be reasonably stable.
The reason Congress established independent regulatory agencies is to shield them to some degree from political interference. No, it doesn't work entirely but it works well enough. These agencies are not under a cabinet secretary and are not part of the Executive Office of the President. Here they are:
The SC exempted the Federal Reserve from today's ruling but I think you can see why Congress didn't want the rest of these agencies, along with the Fed, to be apolitical. Sure, the president nominates their directors, but they have to be confirmed by the senate. If the president can just fire any of them, at any time, for no reason, and the president happens to be an intellectual and moral idiot, whose main goal in office is to accept extravagant bribes, I think you can see right away why our society will be in big trouble.
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The real National Catastrophe is this rogue, extremist right-wing court. Utterly corrupt. Six motherfuckers deciding corporate rule and a new confederacy for 325 million people. A systemic flaw? You bet your ass it is.
We've been waiting almost sixty years for the "pendulum to swing back to the left" — but instead it's become a wrecking ball.
The more outrageously Trump, the Supreme Court,, and the MAGA idiocracy act, the more unengaged citizens will notice and react. The billionaire senator from Nebraska, of all places, is getting out-polled by a pipe fitter.
The average American is fed up with timidity, and bold proposals from either the left or the right are equally acceptable. The only Republican politicians getting any respect by November will be the ones that were kicked out of the party for having scruples. I wouldn't be surprised if 3/4 of the ones running this fall lose bigly.
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