Chief Justice John Roberts is continuing his wholesale destruction of the Supreme Court’s credibility in favor of advancing President Donald Trump’s imperial interests. This time, he’s making sure that Trump can fire Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter despite a Supreme Court case that literally says he can’t without cause.

Roberts and the rest of the court’s conservatives love making bold moves like this, but what they don’t feel so bold about is actually owning up to their actions. So all of the massive reshaping of the federal government by giving ever-increasing power to Trump is happening in the shadows.

In the Slaughter case, Roberts issued an emergency stay of an order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which ruled that Trump could not remove Slaug

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