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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:39 PM Dec 2025

The Supreme Court weighs another step in favor of broad presidential power sought by Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court ‘s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency, starting well before Donald Trump’s time in the White House.

The justices could take the next step in a case being argued Monday that calls for a unanimous 90-year-old decision limiting executive authority to be overturned.

The court’s conservatives, liberal Justice Elena Kagan noted in September, seem to be “raring to take that action.”

They already have allowed Trump, in the opening months of the Republican’s second term, to fire almost everyone he has wanted, despite the court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor that prohibits the president from removing the heads of independent agencies without cause.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-executive-power-firing-0b2e5e38911f17059187a92eb533b273

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The Supreme Court weighs another step in favor of broad presidential power sought by Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2025 OP
Eventually a Democrat will become president again belpejic Dec 2025 #1

belpejic

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1. Eventually a Democrat will become president again
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:52 PM
Dec 2025

When they do, I hope they use this executive power to its maximum extent to rid the federal government of Trumpism.

This will be challenged step-by-step, and any court orders should be followed as closely as they were under Trump.

If the SC plays its double-standard, switcheroo for Democrats (what's perfectly ok for Republicans is suddenly not ok for Democrats), the admin should tell the SC to send in its army while the admin secures legislation to add members to the court.

Once Trumpism has been excised, the admin should work closely with Congress to prepare legislation sharply curtailing executive power, back to the level it was before the first Trump administration. The admin will then sign appropriate legislation forwarded by Congress and immediately comply with it.

ON EDIT: Also, tear down the f**king ballroom and restore the White House's architecture, including landscapes, to what it was in the Biden Administration.

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