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DerekF's avatar

The Supreme Court has made a huge error in undoing Humphrey's Executor, both in legal and practical reasoning. Legally, the Constitution vests Congress with the ability to make laws to determine how our country will be run. In many cases, they have created agencies, bureaus, commissions, and other government institutions and have specified how leadership gets appointed and how they can be fired. The President's job is to faithfully execute the laws that Congress has passed, not to change the rules simply because he is inconvenienced by them.

Practically, these independent agencies are made independent of larger departments for a reason. It could be to streamline their operation, focus their attention, or isolate them from the political winds. The Fed, CFPB, USAID, and others were intended by Congress to be free of partisan politics because Congress and the President who signed those laws knew that politicians could not be trusted to leave them alone.

If the Courts allow Trump to fire Cook, it will create economic havoc as investors will lose all confidence in the markets. Hopefully, the Supremes will value their investments more than they appear to value democracy and the Constitution.

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Carol Vassar's avatar

Well presented. In other words, I could follow it and it made sense to me. But why is the Supreme Court so reluctant to flatly oppose Trump’s moves for complete autocratic control?

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Rosemary Ford's avatar

Termination for “cause” used to have some meaning. That meaning has been eroded because of the number of groups with protected status leading to convoluted interpretations which try to apply equitable standards instead of common sense standards. Similarly, it seems likely that a claim of primary residence for mortgage purposes is common and it is probably impossible to prove that it was fraudulent unless two documents were signed simultaneously. Still, one wonders why privileged people (Trump & Cook) do such stupid things to shave off a few bucks from their mortgages when by almost any standard, they are rich.

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Michael Bower's avatar

ughhh . . . this month's list ¡

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Andrea Lise's avatar

You mentioned republican of bananas, I would say Dictatorship. Steven Levitsky e Daniel Ziblat In their book How Democracy dies, describe the points that we can consider a dictatorship and Trump has done all of them. And I don’t see any democratic mechanism- nothing in our constitution- that will stop him and prevent the land of freedom to continue to be the land of fear that we are living now

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chrisattack's avatar

DEI appointed plagiarist is in an ongoing mortgage fraud investigation. Her job effects mortgage rates and she is being fired for cause.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Who wrote the book on mortgage fraud.? That's Donald Trump. Also, study the difference between effect and affect. If you know that difference, you will sound well educated.

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David Hopper's avatar

Cook’s race is irrelevant, & this is the first I have heard of plagiarism. Until it is officially determined that Cook is guilty of mortgage fraud, there is no cause to fire her.

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