Kingdom Coming

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will. The decision represents a significant win for the Trump administration and a major expansion of the president’s control over parts of the government once seen as a check on his powers.” (The 6-3 decision did limit the president’s ability to fire members of the Fed because even the Court’s extreme majority doesn’t want this lunatic to ruin their 401Ks.)

+ Sotomayor’s dissent: “The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws … [the country’s founding Framers] “never intended to give the President ‘the complete set of powers that the English Crown held, let alone more.'”

+ Supreme Court Upholds Mississippi Late-Arriving Mail-In Ballot Law. (By a 5-4 decision, they decided voting still counts.)

+ And a little reminder of who’s getting these royal powers: Supreme Court Lets $5 Million Sex Abuse Verdict Against Trump Stand.

+ NYT (Gift Article): The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2026.