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It was a mixed bag for President Trump at the Supreme Court on Monday. The justices tightened the president’s grip on executive power in ruling independent agency leaders may be fired, while rejecting a key pillar of Trump’s political agenda aimed at restricting mail-in voting. They ruled he must give a Federal Reserve governor due…
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Monday that a second candidate named Dan Sullivan must be allowed to appear on the ballot in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, rejecting state election officials’ effort to disqualify him over concerns his candidacy was intended to confuse voters. The decision carries national implications as Republicans defend a narrow Senate majority, […]
Natasha Sarin, Professor and Co-Founder of the Budget Lab at Yale University, and Jessica Roth, Professor at Cardozo Law School and a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, discuss the Supreme Court's rulings on President Trump's ability to fire agency heads and whether Lisa Cook can remain in her job at the Federal Reserve. They also weigh the economic and constitutional stakes of the pending birthright citizenship decision. They speak with Joe Mathieu on the late edition of Bloomberg's "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)
President Donald Trump had a decidedly mixed day at the Supreme Court, suffering some major losses — and former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb thinks another huge one is coming down tomorrow on the last day of the court's term.Specifically, he told CNN's Erin Burnett that he believes the court is about to deliver a "rebuke" of Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, and possibly a unanimous one."The mail-in ballot case, that was significant ... he is really upset about that," said Burnett. "Then there's a Lisa Cook case, which he also took a hit in, from the Fed, she obviously was Fed governor. So do you read anything into these?" She added that Trump is furious because "This is a Supreme Court where he thinks he stacked it with people who were going to rule in his favor."Cobb agreed with this assessment. "Trump views this very transactionally — they're his people, they should vote his way. I mean that's his view of the world."However, he added, today Chief Justice John Roberts and some of his right-wing colleagues chose to "call balls and strikes," in the words Roberts famously gave at his confirmation hearing, and "hold the center" in both the Mississippi case and the Fed case.Meanwhile, he said, "Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the Mississippi ballot case, is a conservative; she is a strong conservative, but she's also an intellectually honest person. And she wrote the decision in the way that she actually believes. I know they're livid about that. I know Steve Bannon, one of Trump's advisers, a convicted felon and Epstein confidante, has trashed her today, and that Trump is livid. But the reality is she did her job, and she should be proud of that."As for what's coming next, said Cobb, "I would expect that Trump will be rebuked again on birthright citizenship.""It should be unanimous," he added, because it's an "obvious" case — though Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas might still be loyal to Trump here.The other outstanding cases, including on transgender athletes and campaign finance, could go Trump's way, said Cobb. Nonetheless, "On birthright citizenship, which I think is at the fundamental core of what it is to be an American, I think that the country will be proud tomorrow of the Supreme Court." - YouTube youtu.be
The Supreme Court just swung a massive wrecking ball at the federal government on President Donald Trump's behalf, according to a new analysis. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter that the president has the power to fire members of formerly independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission. Trump celebrated the ruling as a necessary expansion of presidential power, while some court watchers cautioned that it could lead to a full-scale overhaul of the federal government at the behest of one man. Alexis Romero, who writes about the Supreme Court for Slate, argued in a new article that the Slaughter ruling represents a "wrecking ball" that has been swung at the federal government. "This ruling undermines hundreds of statutes that created agencies that were once insulated from presidential control with political party requirements and removal restrictions," Romero wrote. "Nearly all federal agencies that everyday Americans rely on are now fully under President Donald Trump’s thumb. Worse, there are hidden dangers beyond the president firing high-ranking commissioners that the court failed to even acknowledge, ones that voters will need to prompt Congress to step in and correct before the presidency becomes too powerful to tame."Romero also warned that few government agencies seem to have been spared by the Supreme Court's ruling. For instance, agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Transportation Safety Board, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission could also be impacted. "The Supreme Court’s reckless logic leaves no room for carve-outs outside of Wall Street: 'Subordinates who exercise the President’s power are subject to removal by him.' Full stop," Romero wrote. "Until there’s a new president, or a Congress with some spine, Americans will be left to suffer from the untold amounts of fraud and dysfunction that Trump is about to inflict on the executive branch and the country."
The Court has given the president full control of one of the three branches of constitutional government — and created a separate fourth branch in the Fed.
CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel didn't sugarcoat President Donald Trump's Supreme Court setback, tracing it straight back to his refusal to accept the 2020 election.The court ruled 5-4 Monday in Watson v. Republican National Committee that states may count mail ballots postmarked by Election Day even if they arrive afterward, rejecting an RNC challenge Trump's Justice Department had backed. Trump called it a "tremendous loss."Gangel agreed it was a loss, but said Trump brought it on himself."So, is this a loss for President Trump? Yes," she said. "But big picture, he's obsessed with this. It is sort of a loss of his own making, because the underlying problem here is he doesn't want to admit he lost in 2020, so he's looking for fraud and corruption where there isn't."She noted the practice isn't partisan — Trump himself has voted by mail — and said it's "not about corruption or fraud."Gangel said his fixation is holding up a major bipartisan housing bill aimed at reining in costs, which she said had reached his desk, but that he won't sign it because he's so focused on curbing mail voting and passing his stalled election overhaul, the SAVE Act.In the Oval Office moments earlier, Trump said the housing bill "hasn't been sent to me yet" but was "coming." Next to his voting bill, he said, "just about everything is a big yawn."The decision set off fury among MAGA allies and came as the justices also turned away his E. Jean Carroll appeal.Former Trump aide Hogan Gidley pushed back, calling the housing measure "a political win" the president would "take a victory lap" on.
Today, Bloomberg's Mike McKee and June Grasso break down the Supreme Court's decision to allow Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her role while she fights President Trump's efforts to oust her. Then, former Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb discusses RAISE US, a joint effort with former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo that aims to develop a strategy around AI's impact on the labor market. Plus, Kikoff CEO Cynthia Chen, breaks down how her app helps consumers build credit and improve low credit scores. (Source: Bloomberg)