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Feb 20, 2026Center Right

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‘King of the dirtbags’: Fetterman on Platner’s Kik and ex-girlfriend baggage

Washington Examiner

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‘King of the dirtbags’: Fetterman on Platner’s Kik and ex-girlfriend baggage

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) blasted Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, as the “king of the dirtbags,” highlighting growing tensions within the party after another socialist won a congressional primary in Colorado. After a sweeping win from Melot Kiros, a 29-year-old socialist, in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District over Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and […]

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‘King Trump’ is stronger than ever after US supreme court bolsters his agenda

US news | The Guardian

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‘King Trump’ is stronger than ever after US supreme court bolsters his agenda

Birthright citizenship ruling only a surface level setback, with the court granting president’s multiple power grabsThe symbolic and high profile defeats cannot obscure a more uncomfortable truth.The US supreme court – a vital cog in the US constitutional framers’ vision of an intricate system of checks and balances aimed at reining in an excessively assertive president – has made Donald Trump stronger than ever, and shows little inclination to stop. Continue reading...

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'Chaos will follow': Sotomayor blisters court as Trump is given 'power unknown' to kings

Raw Story

4 days ago

'Chaos will follow': Sotomayor blisters court as Trump is given 'power unknown' to kings

Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the Supreme Court of giving President Donald Trump "power unknown even to the English Crown."The 6-3 ruling Monday in Trump v. Slaughter wiped out a 91-year-old precedent that let Congress protect the heads of independent federal agencies from being fired at will."In holding otherwise," Sotomayor wrote in dissent, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, "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.""Perhaps worst of all, the Court today forgets its place," she continued. "Today's majority, however, decides that it knows better: better than even Hamilton, Story, Webster, Holmes, Brandeis, Frankfurter, and Rehnquist.""Today, the majority replaces 90 years of proven, workable practice with a half-baked theory of executive power that is simultaneously all encompassing yet also subject to necessary but undefined exceptions," she wrote. "The one thing that does appear to be clear going forward is that chaos will follow."The ruling guts the independence of more than two dozen federal agencies — including the bodies that police Wall Street, protect workers, and regulate airwaves. Trump can now fire their leaders for any reason, or no reason at all."In granting the President this unbridled authority, the Court upends its precedent, misconstrues our history, and sheds any pretense of judicial modesty," Sotomayor wrote, calling the decision "egregiously wrong."The court issued a separate 5-4 ruling the same day, preserving the Federal Reserve's independence, for now.

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Sotomayor Warns Supreme Court Gave Trump the Powers of a King

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Sotomayor Warns Supreme Court Gave Trump the Powers of a King

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed her conservative colleagues on Monday for making President Donald Trump more powerful than a king.The Supreme Court’s conservative majority scrapped Humphrey’s Executor, a high court precedent that established Congress could limit the president’s ability to fire executive officials of independent federal agencies, and allowed Trump to remove Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission.In a scathing dissent, joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, Sotomayor warned that Trump had just become more powerful than the English monarch whose Parliament “often restricted the Crown’s ability to remove even high-level royal officers.”“The text of the Constitution, along with its history, the longstanding practices of the political branches, and the precedents of this Court, make clear that Congress may limit the causes for which the heads of Commissions like the FTC can be removed by the President,” Sotomayor wrote. “In holding otherwise, 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.”Sotomayor argued that there was simply no way that the decision was Constitutional, because the country’s founding framers had “‘never intended’ to give the President ‘the complete set of powers’ that the English Crown held, let alone more.”

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Sotomayor Warns Supreme Court Gave Trump the Powers of a King