Supreme Court facing 'breathtaking' array of Trump attempts to consolidate power: report

When the Supreme Court reconvenes in October, the nine justices will likely be confronted with at least three major cases that could determine how far the conservative majority will go in allowing Donald Trump to take away more power from Congress and bend the law to hire and fire anyone he chooses.

According to a report from the Washington Posts the president is expected to “seek broader powers for the executive branch,” which “differ from previous showdowns because of the sheer magnitude of the authority Trump is seeking to wield and because he wants greater control over powers the Constitution ascribes to another branch of government.”

As the Post’s Justin Jouvenal notes, one major ruling coming from the nation’s highest court will be the legality of Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, with a “blockbuster” case over his use of tariffs and his attempt to withhold funds from congressionally approved projects following right behind.

According to NYU law professor Peter Shane, the cases to be presented to the Supreme Court are “breathtaking.”“Other presidents have tried to use their authority aggressively, but usually it’s been done through aggressive interpretations of statutory law and in a pretty targeted way,” he bluntly stated before adding that what is to be contested, “...is a challenge to what I think heretofore would have been regarded as a core power of Congress.”

The Post is reporting that the attempted firing of Cook will likely take center stage, noting, “The court’s conservative majority ruled the Constitution vests all executive power in the president, so Trump could fire the agency heads ‘without cause’ even though Congress set up the agencies to be insulated from political interference,” before adding, “But the justices drew a red line around one agency: the Federal Reserve, which was created by Congress to operate independently of the president so it can set interest rates based on economic conditions — not political pressure. The justices indicated its governors probably could be only removed for cause.”

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