The Supreme Court, in decisions released today, won’t allow President Trump to fire the Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook, but will allow Sir Donald to dismiss at will at other federal agencies. Welcome back, the moderator of “The Apprentice” and your famous line, “You’re fired!”
The ruling on the president’s power to dismiss agency heads and others concerned his firing of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner, who sued to get her job back. SCOTUS thus ruled against Rebecca Slaughter, a fired Demofiend member of the FTC.
After the ruling, Trump told reporters: “It gives me the right to do what the president should have the right to do. It [the decision] gave strength to the president.”
In the case of the Fed’s Lisa Cook, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts cited the independence of the Federal Reserve, writing: “Not only the fact of independence but also the appearance of independence is key to the Federal Reserve’s design.”
The vote was surprisingly narrow, 5-4, with Roberts and his deciding vote showing his true colors as a liberal establishmentarian and not as the conservative he tries to paint himself as being.
On the FTC ruling, Demofiend Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois summed up his party’s fears by saying: “Now, this president can fire whomever he perceives as his enemy at these agencies without so much as citing cause.”
