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Barrett's damning question exposed the Supreme court's dangerous double standard

The Supreme Court’s Double Standard Is the PointThe Court did not stumble into contradiction here. It drew a line around money and left the rest of government exposed. In one case, Trump gets broad power to fire agency leaders at will. In the other, the Court invents an exception to protect the Federal Reserve from the same kind of political sabotage. That is not a coherent constitutional principle. It is a hierarchy of whose independence matters.Power, Not PrincipleThe actual power in these cases sits with the Court’s Republican majority and with Trump, who now gets a sharper weapon for…

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