By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies but refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook by 5-4 vote

[In It to Win It]

We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2026-06-29T14:18:20.640Z

Last two #SCOTUS rulings are Slaughter and Cook, both by Chief Justice Roberts.

As expected, Court sides *with* Trump (the usual 6-3 majority) in Slaughter:

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

5-4 majority (with Kavanaugh and the Chief joining the Dems) rules *against* Trump in Cook:

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2026-06-29T14:18:46.540Z

[bucolic_frolic]

1. 2029 will be time to clean house. /nt

[dalton99a]

2. The next Democratic president must do the same - on day one

[Boo1]

3. I think both of these outcomes

Were expected

[Bettie]

4. Wait...are they not ruling on Birthright Citizenship, or did

I miss that one?

[newdeal2]

5. Tomorrow I guess

Then off to their donor-funded vacations I’m sure.

[a kennedy]

7. and very, very nervous about this one......Citizenship......that's THE BIG ONE.....

[dalton99a]

10. A majority will keep it to avoid massive disruptions and unrest

It's a low-hanging fruit. They shouldn't have taken up the case

[themaguffin]

11. They'll probably push that to right before people are off for the 4th.

[Nanjeanne]

6. What a disgraceful verdict for the idea of independent bureaus.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Sotomayor blasts court's ruling allowing Trump to fire agency heads

With palpable anger, the Obama appointee read for 20 minutes from her sharp dissent, calling the decision one that “reshapes the structure of government.

Sotomayor blasts court’s ruling allowing Trump to fire agency heads

With palpable anger, the Obama appointee read for 20 minutes from her sharp dissent, calling the decision one that “reshapes the structure of government.”

— Julianne McShane (@juliannemcshane.bsky.social) 2026-06-29T15:44:38.222Z

https://www.ms.now/news/sonia-sotomayor-fiery-dissent-slaughter-case

Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a fiery dissent Monday in the Supreme Court’s decision backing President Donald Trump’s power to fire members of independent federal agencies, describing the Republican-appointed majority’s ruling as one that cuts away at the Constitution.

Inside the chambers, Sotomayor spent nearly 20 minutes reading from the bench her dissenting opinion in Trump v. Slaughter — an uncommon practice for a dissenting justice.

In a defiant tone, and with palpable anger, she described the decision held as one that “reshapes the structure of government in a fundamental way,” by giving the president “a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches.”

The decision allowing Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, without cause upends a 1935 precedent that had protected the independence of agencies.

In doing so, Sotomayor said, the court is transforming the president’s “duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws.”

Alito has been getting pissed at Justice Sotomayor's dissents. It will be interesting to see how Alito reacts

[MichMan]

9. Why the distinction between the Federal Reserve and all other agencies?