There’s only one reason to continue to follow the activities of the current Supreme Court. And it’s to watch the carefully constructed conservative majority wind itself into knots to explain how their authoritarian-enabling rulings don’t apply to Democratic presidents or the possibly imminent Democratic Congress. Otherwise, the bunch has all the integrity of a “piss-poor bowling team from Memphis,” as the late Dr. Thompson once wrote of an earlier conservative Court.

On Monday, the Court heard arguments in the case of Trump v. Slaughter. The proximate cause of action was whether or not the president had the right to fire Rebecca Slaughter, the commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. More broadly, the arguments touched on whether or not the concept of independent agencies created b

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