Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be used, as it also has been, to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers.
Elena Kagan dissenting in DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL . v. REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER, ET AL.
It's so hard to keep up with the news these days because paywalls are so common.
The Supreme Court sent the independent executive branch agency into extinction this week, without even bothering to overturn the precedent that forbids it to do so first.
Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo. The Supreme Court’s Project to Coronate Trump Takes a Leap Forward
Jamelle Bouie provides a gift link to his important essay:
It is simply a conceptual error to think of democratic legitimacy as a grant embedded in a single person. It’s better to see it as a relationship between our political institutions and the publics they serve, each responsive to the other as they work together to do the business of government.
Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times. This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook
