SCOTUS Shadow Docket Greenlights Trump's Lawlessness Again
An education on the destruction of American education.
In this member-exclusive episode of Amicus , Dahlia Lithwick and co-host Mark Joseph Stern discuss the Supreme Court's shadow docket decision in the case of McMahon v New York, an unexplained order permitting the Trump administration to move forward with its abolition of the Education Department by firing about 1,400 employees. They chew over the bottomless horror of the Emil Bove judicial confirmation that appears to be all-but guaranteed, and debate whether the Supreme Court, really, really meant it when it warned the President last May that for reasons nobody could understand at the time, he couldn't fire the Fed Chair, Jerome Powell.
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