Justice #Kavanaugh pushes the lawyer for the fired #FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter about the #Trump admin’s argument that “independent agencies are not accountable to the people.” The justice asked how the lawyer would respond to the argument that “they’re not elected as #Congress & the President are, & are exercising massive power over individual liberty & billion dollar industries.”
#law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers 🧵
Finally Sauer is finished.
The justices will now hear from Amit Agarwal the lawyer representing fired #FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.
Agarwal is a special counsel for Protect Democracy, which describes itself as “a cross-ideological nonprofit group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat.”
He worked as a law clerk for Judge #Kavanaugh on the US Court of Appeals for DC, before #Trump nominated Kavanaugh to #SCOTUS. He also worked as a clerk for Justice Samuel #Alito.
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Justice #Kavanaugh expresses doubts about one part of the #Trump admin’s argument: even if the fired commissioner wins, she is not entitled to reinstatement but only to back pay. If that argument were accepted, Kavanaugh says, it could affect the #FederalReserve.
#law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
Brett Kavanaugh: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Epstein Gave Steve Bannon Advice on How to Help Putin’s Puppet the Pedohile and RAPIST MCBLACKOUTDRUNK Brett Kavanaugh #epstein #EpsteinFiles #scotus #trump #kavanaugh #bannon #news
https://newrepublic.com/post/203201/epstein-steve-bannon-advice-trump-texts
Benjamin Gutman, Oregon’s solicitor general, is making his first oral argument appearance before the justices on behalf of a group of #states that challenged the #tariffs.
#Kavanaugh asked, why would #Congress give the president the power to shut down #trade but not to take a less severe step, like impose a 1% tariff. That, he said, appeared to underscore the govt’s claim, creating an “odd donut hole in the statute.”
“It’s not a donut hole,” responded Gutman. “It’s a different kind of pastry.”
#Katyal responded to #Kavanaugh that #Algonquin was one import. Not #tariffs broadly applied to numerous countries across the board.
“Algonquin was expressly a trade statute,” Katyal said. “It’s everything this case isn’t.”
He said the Algonquin decision had a reference to #duties in a specific provision & an extended, clear legislative history describing the powers given to a president.
#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy
Justice #Kavanaugh points to FEA v. #Algonquin, a 1976 tariff that was upheld by #SCOTUS.
The court unanimously ruled for President Gerald Ford in a case about the imposition of #tariffs on oil imports, based on a different statute that also doesn’t mention the word tariffs.
“The court 9-0 rejected the argument” that the absence of the word tariff doomed Ford’s action, Kavanaugh said.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/426/548/
Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh, a key vote, is very focused on President Nixon’s imposition of a 10% tariff in 1971. The #tariffs were part of the “Nixon shock” measures aimed at addressing #trade deficits & combatting #inflation. “What’s the significance of the Nixon example & precedent here?” Justice Kavanaugh asked. “Because I think figuring that out is real important to deciding this case correctly.”
#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy
"By being the only #justice who supported the decision who wrote anything, he has — whether he wanted to or not — become the face of this #racist decision...Enter the '#Kavanaugh stop.'"
#Americans, #MAGAs, do you care about your #4thAmendment? Or have you decided that it doesn't apply to your brown #Citizens
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The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later - https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-kavanaugh-stop-50-days-later
The #Kavanaugh Stop’s Legacy: 50 Days, 170+ Detained Citizens, Zero Answers - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/29/the-kavanaugh-stops-legacy-50-days-170-detained-citizens-zero-answers/ "It is a deep, dark stain on America as a supposed land of freedom, and it should be tied up with Brett Kavanaugh’s legacy forever."
#Kavanaugh apparently thinks he's a #lawmaker and not a #judge with this nonsense about "do we really need to protect the #votingrights of Black people still?" That's not the question being judged, and it's completely insane that this is how the #SCOTUS functions now.
Earlier, Justice #Kavanaugh gave #Louisiana’s lawyer an opportunity to push back on the #NAACP lawyer’s warning of “catastrophic” implications if the court strikes down §2 & the possibility that none of Louisiana’s 6 congressional districts would be majority-minority.
The state’s lawyer says, “I don’t know what our legislature would do,” but adds, “I don’t think the sky is going to fall.”
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
#Kavanaugh *again* comes back to the question of whether the country might come to a point where it no longer needs to take #race into account when drawing voting districts.
Aguiñaga, the Louisiana solicitor general, essentially argues that we’re there already [oh really?]:
“I think the warning bells have been sounding for decades, & I think that’s a long enough notice for anybody involved.”
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
#Kavanaugh, one of the key justices to watch in this case, questions whether there might be a point where the country no longer needs to take #race into account in drawing voting districts.
“The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases, in a variety of contexts, has said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time … but that they should not be indefinite & should have an end point,” he said.
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
Roberts & #Kavanaugh are the ones to watch
Along with the three liberal justices, #JohnRoberts & Brett Kavanaugh were part of a surprising decision two years ago that required #Alabama to redraw its congressional districts to benefit Black voters and led to the new map in #Louisiana as well.
The outcome likely will be different if either justice votes differently this time around.
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
Among the possible outcomes in the #Louisiana case, Verrilli said, is one in which a majority holds that the need for courts to step into #redistricting cases, absent [proof of] intentional #discrimination, has essentially expired. #Kavanaugh raised the issue briefly 2 years ago.
#SCOTUS has separately washed its hands of partisan #gerrymandering claims, in a 2019 opinion that also was written by #JohnRoberts.
#law #ActivistCourt #VRA #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
#Louisiana appealed to #SCOTUS but
eventually added a second majority Black district after the justices’ 5-4 ruling in 2023 that found a likely violation of the #VotingRightsAct in a similar case over Alabama’s congressional map.
#JohnRoberts & Justice Brett #Kavanaugh joined their 3 more liberal colleagues in the #Alabama outcome. Roberts rejected what he described as “Alabama’s attempt to remake our section 2 jurisprudence anew.”
#law #VRA #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy
Simi Valley resident gets over 8 years in prison for attempt to kill Justice Kavanaugh
GREENBELT, Md. — A California resident who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh at his Maryland home…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #atypicalcase #federaljudge #Headlines #home #justicekavanaugh #kavanaugh #Life #nicholasroske #pervasivethreat #plot #prison #prosecutor #roe #SupremeCourt #TopStories #wade #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/163438/
Lawsuit against #Kavanaugh stops, so called because he wrote in an opinion that #immigration officers could stop persons based on their #Latino appearance, and that the stops were a minor inconvenience to them. The suit, be an affected group of Washington, DC citizens and legal residents, states they were detained and held for hours, sometimes overnight https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/scotus-analysis-kavanaugh-stops-supreme-court-lawsuit.html
