https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/27/800061362/community/kitchen-table-kibitzing-the-rolling-coup/
We believe that in the United States of America today we are in the middle of a “rolling coup.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/30/800063103/courts/supreme-courts-leader-doesnt-care-about-the-constitution/
In Trump v. Slaughter, the conservative supermajority allowed Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, without cause, from the Federal Trade Commission. The ruling overturned a 91-year-old precedent, Humphrey’s Executor, which had held that the president could not remove members of the FTC without cause. But the Slaughter ruling isn’t limited to the FTC, but now covers all independent agency members, commissioners, heads, and chairs. Well, except for the Federal Reserve, of course.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-dire-warning-supreme-court-ruling-expanding-presidential-power_n_6a4396a7e4b0f4826b480d53?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
“Today, nevertheless, is going to be remembered at the court for what it told Trump he can do,” Maddow said Monday during a lengthy monologue. “In dissent, liberal [Supreme Court] Justice Sonia Sotomayor called today’s ruling, quote, ‘profoundly destabilizing.’”
The “Rachel Maddow Show” host continued, “She said the majority ruling in the Slaughter case today, quote, ‘gives the president a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once co-equal branches.’”
