SHALL MEANS SHALL — Supreme Court Blockbuster 6-3 Ruling

Supreme Court Polling: No One Is Taking John Roberts Seriously Anymore

During its most recent term, the Supreme Court issued landmark decisions that upheld President Donald Trump’s right to discriminate against immigrants from majority-Black countries, empowered Republican politicians to gerrymander voters of color out of electoral existence, and authorized Trump to fire (almost) any independent agency head he doesn’t like. On the term’s final day, the Court rejected his attempt to unilaterally overturn the Fourtee…

The Supreme Court just rewrote the rules —and Trump is celebrating

Donald Trump recently took to his Truth Social platform to celebrate a Supreme Court judgment. In response to the court’s decision in Trump v Slaughter on June 29, he posted: “90 years of precedent has been COMPLETELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY OVERRULED, greatly increasing Presidential Power at a time when it is most needed!”The US president is famously hyperbolic, but this time he did not exaggerate. His reading of US constitutional law was entirely co…

What Trump gained from two Supreme Court losses

My first reaction to the Supreme Court’s blockbuster June decisions was that President Donald Trump overplayed his hand. He tried to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, prompting the court to declare, in Trump v. Cook,…

Trump abandons fight to fire Fed Reserve governor after smackdown from Supreme Court

The Trump administration dropped its appellate fight to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, three weeks after the Supreme Court blocked the firing in a 5-4 ruling.Both sides filed a joint request Monday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to send the case back to the lower court.That means the underlying legal question — whether Trump's attempt to fire Cook violated the Federal Reserve Act — will now be d…

SHALL MEANS SHALL — Supreme Court Blockbuster 6-3 Ruling

President Donald Trump said Monday that it was an “honor” to be serving as president when the Supreme Court issued a ruling that, he argued, strengthened “Presidential Power at a time when it is most needed.” In two posts on Truth Social, Trump celebrated the high court’s decision in what he referred to as the “Slaughter Case,” saying the ruling reaffirmed the president’s constitutional authority under Article II to remove executive branch offic…