SCOTUS just signaled how its next term will go -- and Trump is "ecstatic"

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SCOTUS just signaled how its next term will go — and Trump is “ecstatic”
The conservative majority once again uses the shadow docket to side with POTUS

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published September 25, 2025 9:20AM (EDT)


(Salon) President Donald Trump has had a tumultuous week so far. There was his strange, inappropriate remarks about hating his opponents at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, a bizarre press conference in which he denounced Tylenol and vaccines, and a downright unhinged speech he gave before world leaders at the United Nations. But the president did get some good news from his allies on the Supreme Court. Using the so-called “shadow docket,” the justices allowed him to fire someone the law says he should not be allowed to fire. No doubt that felt very soothing. He is, after all, the man who first ran for office by shouting his famous reality show catchphrase: “You’re fired!”

In March, Trump terminated two Democratic-appointed members of the Federal Trade Commission, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, without cause. They in turn sued the government, demanding to be reinstated and pointing to Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a landmark 1935 Supreme Court case involving the firing of an FTC commissioner. The ruling made clear that a president cannot fire independent agency commissioners at will; there must be a grave reason.

After Bedoya resigned from the case in June to seek other employment, Slaughter was left to carry on with the suit alone. The lower courts all sided with her, citing the clear precedent in Humphrey’s Executor. But earlier this week, ahead of its upcoming term that begins Oct. 4, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority accepted Trump’s emergency appeal in the case and, using an accelerated timetable, added it to its December docket. Worse, they ruled that Trump’s firing of Slaughter could stand until the case is resolved.

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NBC reported noted that more than 300 cases have been filed against the administration so far, which they believe indicates that the administration has been careful not to push the conservative majority to take up cases they could conceivably see as a bridge too far. I really doubt that’s going to be a problem. A couple of the justices might nod weakly toward American ideals and uphold birthright citizenship since it’s the text of the 14th Amendment seems clear, but I suspect they will generally side with Trump on even the most draconian authoritarian policies. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/09/25/scotus-just-signaled-how-its-next-term-will-go-and-trump-is-ecstatic/

[rampartd]

1. 300 suits vs administration

equals 300 suits vs taxpayers.

krasnov can do crazy stuff and we will have to pay for it

several of these have worked that krasnov settles the suit for big money in order to pay his supporters.

[Irish_Dem]

2. US Supreme Court is the most important piece of the Trump Crime Syndicate.