SCOTUS is little more than a rubber stamp for the Mango Mussolini.

Pretty soon he won't need them or DOJ because everything he does will just be considered "legal"

The coup unfolds

when a Republican occupies the Whote House!

Dem Preseident? Not so much. Block, deny, state rights. Blah, blah, blah

They have the power at any time to rein him in by impeaching him and removing him from office.

"The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision"


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/supreme-court-education-department-ruling-00452134

BULL:SHIT, that they feel they don't have to give a reason. KING in the white house, fully supported by this fucking court.

I.e., these are cases where they haven't had a "full hearing" on the merits of the request and basically rule based on the submitted arguments...

This isn't the first ruling saying that the executive has the power to substantially change staffing in the administration and that district judges can't pause that action nationally while they hear a case about such restructuring.

It isn't a surprise that - once that is clear - the administration would file "emergency" requests saying essentially "Hey... can you tell this judge the same thing please?" or that the court would respond quickly with something like this unless a lower court would apply the new understanding on their own.

It' the lenthy dissents that are perhaps not surprising - but at least out of the norm. Usually it's one paragraph ruling followed by a single sentence saying "Justices X & Y would have not have granted the request"

which is why the suits were brought in the first place, is that despite the Executive being permitted to DRAW UP PLANS for personnel, actually "carrying out those plans" is under the purview of Congress with respect to getting approved funding or recessions of funding.

And the 45 administration has been operating "backasswards" - illegally eliminating positions that were ALREADY FUNDED by Congress, without a Rescission approval.

The lower courts were trying to stop the immediate layoffs that were violating the Impoundment Control Act and the SCOTUS just ignored that as I suppose that minute argument either wasn't clear enough or didn't seem to get through to 6 of them. The lower courts saw what was going on right away.

If 45 wanted to lay off people NEXT FY and Congress approves that, then that would be a different issue.

I remember the Clinton RIFs of the '90s and that was part of a PLAN that was provided to Congress and approved by them. Clinton didn't violate the Antideficieny Act by funding "buyouts" without appropriations designated for that purpose. "Buyouts" didn't happen UNTIL Congress passed legislation TO do such. Yet Muskrat had his fellow rats send out "Fork in the Road" nonsense as if the federal government was some "business" run by a "CEO" without a Civil Service Act or need for governmental funding approval.

...being paid through September 30, then begin my federal retirement begins. Definitely unconventional, and yet by continuing to pay us through September 30, and with no new appropriations needed to fund it, they stayed within the bounds of the law.

The probationary firings were definitely more questionable from a legal standpoint, since performance is supposed to factored in, and I think that in many, if not most cases, it wasn't.

The layoffs that are going on now, in my mind, are completely illegal.

ETA: spelling corrections

... trying to add value but not doing well...

I try to include any press releases/published statements, links to reports/studies/publications, and court filings. I have also been adding references on previous threads with earlier background on the story.

magats have disparaged education and educated people for years, it's cool to be stupid, etc. etc. We are losing out to the rest of the world and this will only accelerate that trend.

this SCOTUS overturns Griswold vs CT, the voting rights act, and Loving v Virginia. I know Thomas wants to overturn all three.