Supreme Court blocks Trump's bid to remove Fed governor Lisa Cook
A wild Monday at SCOTUS as mail-in ballots survive, Lisa Cook keeps her job, E. Jean Carroll's win is now permanent — but the Court also just gave Trump way more power to fire agency heads. Plus: Iran War updates, Trump's empty fair, and more. Your midday update is here:
h0pe4dfuture.bsky.social5It's only getting worse as the right rushes to implement every part of the 2025 Heritage Handbook.
MadGreek 🧿5Best place to get the news these days!!!
Ariana Niko4Some of today’s rulings protect rights. Others hand the presidency even more power. Both things can be true at the same time, and people should stop treating every court day as all good or all bad.
kokaneekid.bsky.social4Have to wonder if future presidents will have the power to fire Supreme Court justices? Term limits don’t seem to mean anything to them.
Terry Dale3Trump calls counting legal ballots "a tremendous loss." His SCOTUS pick disagreed. So did the facts. He's not fighting fraud — he's fighting an election he knows he can't win honestly.
ripplerush.bsky.social3I am no legal expert, but I have read federal RICO law. I'll admit that reading does not prove understanding. Based on that reading,it appears to me that the majority of the Republican party, including donors and Supreme Court justices, are involved in massive RICO activity. Any opinions??
Weird. I’d have thought that the biggest winner in the case preventing Trump from firing Lisa Cook was Lisa Cook.
graham steele1An especially strange take because Warsh has said that he believes, contra most chairs before him, that the Fed is *not* entirely independent in all its functions. www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
furtherexchange.bsky.social1She is Black and a woman so you can’t expect Murdoch’s WSJ to acknowledge she has triumph or won or has power or influence. That would upset the kooks on the exit page
The biggest winner in the Cook decision may be the man Trump has put in charge of the Fed: Kevin Warsh. "The idea that a president can trump up charges and fire governors on ticky-tack grounds, and then put a bunch of real sock puppets around Warsh—how does Warsh manage the institution then?"
Nick Timiraos17The Cook decision was both expected and also instructive: Roberts reached back 250 years to justify an independent central bank. This isn't just about due process. My video: www.youtube.com/shorts/1ZF97...
Jen d’Arc1Makes sense. I thought you were going to say Warsh was the big winner because Trump will probably turn on him eventually, given his track record with his other toadies.
