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The Supreme Court knocked down one of the final barriers to Donald Trump’s unprecedented consolidation of power on Monday: By an apparent 6–3 vote , the conservative supermajority effectively greenlit Trump’s illegal firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner and teed up the reversal of a 90-year-old precedent that prevents the president from exercising dictatorial control over government.

It is bad enough that the court is clearly planning to let Trump construct the most submissive executive branch in history by purging his opponents from federal agencies. What’s worse, though, is that the supermajority has ushered in this new era of autocratic presidency over the

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