Summary
A federal court has ruled that Trump’s unprecedented firing of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Gwynne Wilcox was illegal and ordered her reinstatement.
Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the President can’t terminate NLRB members at will, directly rebuking Trump’s self-image as a “king” or “dictator.” She state, “no one in our system of government was meant to be king – the President included – and not just in name only.”
Wilcox sued, arguing her removal violated labor law, leaving the board without a quorum needed to rule on cases. The White House defended the termination, claiming Wilcox was a “far-left appointee with no place in the Trump administration.”
Labor leaders condemned the move as undermining NLRB independence and halting federal labor law enforcement.
She was not a far-left appointee, she just represented unions in her legal work beforehand. She was/is the first black member of the board, however.
MAGA don’t know what the far left even is.
If Ronald Reagan came back, MAGA would call him “far left” too.
They think it begins at allowing women to continue living.
I’m astonished every time I see a woman wearing a maga cap. Do they hate themselves?
In a sense, yes. They hate other women more.
Some feel that they’ll be an exception.
The face-eating leopards are circling…
women can do what!?
-maga
Yeah, I think a lot of MAGA, and other Republicans, don’t realize that the ‘radical left’ democrats, would be seen as right-wing by many other western nations’ standards. And the whole thing about them being the ‘leader of the free world’ is sickening and hilarious at the same time.
Canada is 11th in the Cato Human Freedom Index, while the US, the ‘freest nation in the world is 17th’. They have no business talking to us, or ANYONE ahead of them in that index, about being free. And most of the nations ahead of them in that freedom index, are from Europe, the ‘socialist nations’ as MAGA and others like to call them.
My dad thinks Kamala Harris is a communist hellbent on the destruction of America. Even as she was campaigning on “status quo/stay the course”.
Kamala Harris is a communist
🤣
Meanwhile, my parents’s WeChat is saying Democrats are causing the “Migrant Crisis”
And we are immigrants. 🙄
Dude I’m saying. She was honestly one of the most responsible choices for President I’ve ever seen, and I’m a goddamn anarchist. I hated voting for a cop on principle but I did it anyway because if your choices are a) an educated professional who’s diplomatically respected and seems qualified to lead the executive branch, and b) whatever this fucking is, yes I’ll take stability thank you.
I’m having to prep a detailed argument for my dad to disavow Trump because he’s just so goddamn terrible in so many ways, how can I keep respecting a man who supports him? But I’ll just get written off as victim to the woke mind virus like I’m being gaslit by every major news organization other than Fox. I’m serious, I’ve got like 50+ tabs open on my phone waiting to go into a document.
It’s so distressing
I’ve stopped talking politics with my parents. My dad and I argued for hours about the pull out from Afghanistan and he just couldn’t see that the Taliban takeover was going to happen no matter what once US troops were gone. He was, and is, convinced it was all Bidens fault. Somehow Trump was gonna bomb the Taliban out of existence when no president had in 20yrs. Or at least keep them from taking over.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m the one living in an alternate reality.
That’s what they want you to think.
I know and that makes it so much worse.
Wilcox’s reinstatement is a win for democracy—Trump’s illegal power grab deserved this legal hammer.
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OK, so a judge ruled that Trump did something illegal.
Where are the consequences?A federal court ruled that Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of a former senior official at the top US labor watchdog was illegal, and ordered that she be reinstated.
Very first thing in the article, dude.
That’s not a consequence, dude.
The real question is, will they let her take her job back or continue to block her in defiance of the courts.
Guess we’ll find out. Doubt it’ll be in the paper though.
The point is, what is the mechanism to enforce it? What is preventing the Administration from saying “We’re not gonna a reinstate her?”
This is the mechanism.
So, she shows up for work tomorrow and DOGE says “Sorry, you don’t work here anymore”. What can she do about it? Elon Musk and Donald Trump pay no heed to laws, why would they respect a court order?
I didn’t know dude. I’m not God.
I know. If you were, you could solve this Trump problem once and for all…
With pleasure, too
Indeed. The whole American “checks and balances” has turned out to be entirely based on good faith, and non-existant in practice. There are no actual repercussions, especially not when you own the judiciary and the legislature.
OK. Will she be reinstated?
A federal court ruled that Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of a former senior official at the top US labor watchdog was illegal, and ordered that she be reinstated.
Very first thing in the article, dude.
What’s supposed to happen and what will happen are not necessarily the same thing, especially with this administration.
If we get to the President flagrantly defying the Judicary, we’ll have something called a “constitutional crisis” on our hands, where pretty much anything and everything is thrown onto the table. Then, the battle for liberty truly begins
K. I have no control over that.
No, you don’t, but you also shouldn’t just assume that a court ruling is going to be followed.
So was it a rhetorical question originally, or…?
Trump has completely gutted the NLRB
Cool story judge, but I have the Supreme Court here saying the president actually is a king. Sorry.
