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Associate Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
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Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet
(1) the constitutionality of merit-based civil service laws is questioned at SCOTUS
(2) Trump announces an arbitrary $12bn clientelistic payout to “farmers” (funding source and statutory authority TBD I guess)
Roscoe Conkling would be so proud
Trump Promises Farmers $12 Billion to Blunt Fallout From His Trade War www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
I am curious to see what Warner Bros (CNN) does to fend off this new hostile tender offer
Also justice kavanaugh: independent agencies create too much uncertainty because political appointments by presidents cause policy swings
Make it make sense pls thnks
Reposted by Kate Jackson
Reposted by James Goodwin
1 all agencies are au fond unconstitutional because they excercise legislative and judicial functions or
2 the prez must have unrestrained control over every aspect of them because their powers are (in a formal legal sense) executive
Either we go full autocracy, destroy federal government state capacity altogether, or make the court a super-legislature.
Reposted by Kate Jackson
Reposted by James Goodwin
1 all agencies are au fond unconstitutional because they excercise legislative and judicial functions or
2 the prez must have unrestrained control over every aspect of them because their powers are (in a formal legal sense) executive
Reposted by Mark D. White, Julie Rovner, Kate Jackson
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