Yay, More tax dollars for Supreme Court security details!!! USA USA USA!!!!

They didn't last time.

Basically that's now what can happen. Any agency under the Executive Branch. But seems like Congress f'ed up by putting so many branches under the Executive branch to begin with. Time for Congress to fix that, lol but that's never going to happen.

I get being disenchanted with only being able to choose harm reduction, but prioritizing self-righteousness over harm reduction isn't the flex some people think it is.

And the folks throwing away their votes in protest of the two-party system are shooting themselves and all of us in the collective foot.

So a candidate doesn't tickle their tummy enough, too bad. Should still choose them over a candidate that wants to kill brown people, and LGBTQ people, and the poor, and the disabled, etc.

I mean I get it, the two party system sucks, but it is something that can only be changed with time and influence, and a lot of it. It's a slow and gradual thing. The only way out of the system is to go through it.

You know that was a bullshit excuse, right?

Sucks that the Democrats couldn’t do some bare ass minimum ‘genocide is bad’ messaging if they wanted those votes.

Not that I think it deters anyone who is here to crash out over criticism of the Democratic party, but I voted Harris and live in a blue county in a blue state. I can control literally nothing that [general you] are mad about.

They know that if there is another Democrat president, they won't have the guts to use their power to do what needs to be done.

Not quite. The court’s position is that there cannot exist an independent agency. They don’t see any provision for such a thing in the constitution. And if you take a purely literal originalist interpretation of the constitution, they’re right. Nothing in there says anything about “independent agencies”. Such independence was established ~140 years ago by precedent. So they’re not rewriting the dictionary, but they’re certainly rewriting a core legal doctrine that has been in place for >50% of the nations existence.

In my opinion, assuming there’s ever actually an opportunity to fix this mess, a key change we’ll need to make is that there needs to be a higher standard for the supreme court to overturn its own precedent. Like, maybe the vote needs to be unanimous or something. This activist court has been decades in the making, and is radically rewriting much of the foundational doctrine under which the country has operated for generations.

This is what I don't understand either. John Roberts said:

Subordinates who exercise the President's power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the President, and the President to the people

Like, what? What sense does this make? Does this not objectively make it NOT independent? Does this not objectively destroy the separation of powers? Why is an independent agency accountable to the president? Aren't they there to serve the people only and not one person in the white house? How are they exercising the "presidents power?" The president(very purposefully) is not supposed to have that power. They do. That's... kinda the point. Isn't that like the definition of an independent agency? I don't understand what he's even trying to say here.

Look at you thinking there will be a "next Democrat president"

Assuming there will be a Democratic president, I doubt they will undo anything. What administration would be willing to give up power?

Here's one from NPR also. Do we not like CBS here? It was just the first I saw reported.