Shelleybleu
@shelleybleu.bsky.social
Retired Canadian. Still trying to help the United States get rid of trump. 🇨🇦 🐸
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But who is Brett Kavanaugh accountable to? I wonder.
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
But who is Brett Kavanaugh accountable to? I wonder.
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Gorsuch: perhaps Congress has delegated some legislative power to these agencies. Maybe this Court has taken a hands-off approach through intelligible principle doctrine. Is the answer to re-invigorate that doctrine? Is the water warm?
(huh?)
(huh?)
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Gorsuch: perhaps Congress has delegated some legislative power to these agencies. Maybe this Court has taken a hands-off approach through intelligible principle doctrine. Is the answer to re-invigorate that doctrine? Is the water warm?
(huh?)
(huh?)
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Sauer keeps saying, we are not challenging that!
Kagan says: yeah maybe not for now! But your theory of the case would entail challenges to all kinds of protections for all kinds of people!
Kagan says: yeah maybe not for now! But your theory of the case would entail challenges to all kinds of protections for all kinds of people!
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sauer keeps saying, we are not challenging that!
Kagan says: yeah maybe not for now! But your theory of the case would entail challenges to all kinds of protections for all kinds of people!
Kagan says: yeah maybe not for now! But your theory of the case would entail challenges to all kinds of protections for all kinds of people!
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Kagan: so you want the MSPB, NLRB to go down despite their judicial functions....what about inferior officers? Many kinds of inferior officers wielding exec. power all over the place...and employees are too!
[Kagan really emphasizing the slippery slope here.]
[Kagan really emphasizing the slippery slope here.]
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Kagan: so you want the MSPB, NLRB to go down despite their judicial functions....what about inferior officers? Many kinds of inferior officers wielding exec. power all over the place...and employees are too!
[Kagan really emphasizing the slippery slope here.]
[Kagan really emphasizing the slippery slope here.]
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Kagan: "but if you take your logic at face value, it seems to include a great many things"...vesting clause gives "all of it" (exec power) to the president. "it does not seem there is a stopping point"
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Kagan: "but if you take your logic at face value, it seems to include a great many things"...vesting clause gives "all of it" (exec power) to the president. "it does not seem there is a stopping point"
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Kavanaugh: how about the Federal Reserve?
Sauer: we agree with Wilcox ruling - that Federal Reserve is "unique and distinct, sui generis". We have not challenged those....
Sauer: we agree with Wilcox ruling - that Federal Reserve is "unique and distinct, sui generis". We have not challenged those....
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Kavanaugh: how about the Federal Reserve?
Sauer: we agree with Wilcox ruling - that Federal Reserve is "unique and distinct, sui generis". We have not challenged those....
Sauer: we agree with Wilcox ruling - that Federal Reserve is "unique and distinct, sui generis". We have not challenged those....
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Roberts: there's a difference between HE and Weiner - in terms of the consequences w regard to agencies. More like court of appeals of armed forces...HE may be the issue. Doesn't mean Weiner or other agencies fall with it.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Roberts: there's a difference between HE and Weiner - in terms of the consequences w regard to agencies. More like court of appeals of armed forces...HE may be the issue. Doesn't mean Weiner or other agencies fall with it.
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(Weiner v US - 1958 - said president cannot remove officials of independent, quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial agencies)
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
(Weiner v US - 1958 - said president cannot remove officials of independent, quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial agencies)
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Soto: what do we do with Morrison, Weiner, Perkins?
Sauer: Morrison repudiated entire logic of Humphrey's Executor (HE)
Sauer: Morrison repudiated entire logic of Humphrey's Executor (HE)
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Soto: what do we do with Morrison, Weiner, Perkins?
Sauer: Morrison repudiated entire logic of Humphrey's Executor (HE)
Sauer: Morrison repudiated entire logic of Humphrey's Executor (HE)
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Soto: you still haven't answered my question. Where else have we so fundamentally altered the structure of government? We've had indep agencies since the founding. "This is not a modern contrivance."
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Soto: you still haven't answered my question. Where else have we so fundamentally altered the structure of government? We've had indep agencies since the founding. "This is not a modern contrivance."
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Soto: you're asking us to destroy the structure of government.
Sauer: no, to return to 1839 status - settled beyond the power of alteration
Sauer: no, to return to 1839 status - settled beyond the power of alteration
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Soto: you're asking us to destroy the structure of government.
Sauer: no, to return to 1839 status - settled beyond the power of alteration
Sauer: no, to return to 1839 status - settled beyond the power of alteration
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Soto: what cases have we overturned that are nearly 100 years old that reshape the government? Neither King, not parliament, not prime ministers ever had an unqualified removal power. Constitution doesn't say anything about this at all. We've said repeatedly no "absolute power of the president".
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Soto: what cases have we overturned that are nearly 100 years old that reshape the government? Neither King, not parliament, not prime ministers ever had an unqualified removal power. Constitution doesn't say anything about this at all. We've said repeatedly no "absolute power of the president".
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Sotomayor: why not sever the executive power instead of removal power?
Sauer: FTC is basically all executive
Soto: but you're asking us to overturn a case that's been around for 90 years
Sauer: FTC is basically all executive
Soto: but you're asking us to overturn a case that's been around for 90 years
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Sotomayor: why not sever the executive power instead of removal power?
Sauer: FTC is basically all executive
Soto: but you're asking us to overturn a case that's been around for 90 years
Sauer: FTC is basically all executive
Soto: but you're asking us to overturn a case that's been around for 90 years
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Landmark case up for argument at SCOTUS at 10am on the power of presidents to fire independent agency heads.
Here’s my quick preview in Espresso, @economist.com’s daily app.
I’ll be posting live analysis during the oral argument in this thread
Here’s my quick preview in Espresso, @economist.com’s daily app.
I’ll be posting live analysis during the oral argument in this thread
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Landmark case up for argument at SCOTUS at 10am on the power of presidents to fire independent agency heads.
Here’s my quick preview in Espresso, @economist.com’s daily app.
I’ll be posting live analysis during the oral argument in this thread
Here’s my quick preview in Espresso, @economist.com’s daily app.
I’ll be posting live analysis during the oral argument in this thread
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The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
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This is the story the Dems and media need to be covering. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
December 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is the story the Dems and media need to be covering. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
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ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
The figures don't include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.
www.nbcnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
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Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
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Trump isn’t just Making Argentina Great Again, he’s also Making China Great Again
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump isn’t just Making Argentina Great Again, he’s also Making China Great Again
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they're not creative and hate woke, creative people, so...
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
they're not creative and hate woke, creative people, so...
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For $100 Billion, David Ellison could built a hell of a movie studio on his own.
But you know.... that would require actually building something rather than just being a scavenger and looter.
But you know.... that would require actually building something rather than just being a scavenger and looter.
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For $100 Billion, David Ellison could built a hell of a movie studio on his own.
But you know.... that would require actually building something rather than just being a scavenger and looter.
But you know.... that would require actually building something rather than just being a scavenger and looter.
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lotta men at this company who just don't understand the word 'no'
It’s a Bidding War: Paramount Attempts Hostile Offer for Warner Bros.
David Ellison calls Netflix's $82.7 billion deal value an "inferior proposal" and tells Warners shareholders that his coalition promises $18 billion more in cash.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
lotta men at this company who just don't understand the word 'no'
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Remember Ellison is also angling for co-ownership of TikTok alongside Rupert Murdoch
Maybe it's not a good idea to allow the billionaire Trump-supporting Ellison family at Paramount that just took over CBS News to also take over Warner Brothers, the company that owns CNN. There will be no free press in America if the president and his allies control all the major media outlets.l
Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Remember Ellison is also angling for co-ownership of TikTok alongside Rupert Murdoch
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I can't wait for that orange mother fucker to die and his right wing buddies go to jail.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I can't wait for that orange mother fucker to die and his right wing buddies go to jail.