David French
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he picks on targets that it is hard to mobilize people to defend.
So undocumented immigrants, prime example.
How many people are gonna go in the streets to chant, hands off Harvard, hands off Skadden Arps, right?
Nobody, nobody is going to do that because he's picking on in these major educational and legal institutions,
some institutions that are actually quite not popular, especially with his base.
And so he's very good at picking targets.
And that's one of the things that makes opposition so difficult, because then you're immediately, if you say, hey, you know, suspected members of Trindoagua, TDA, they deserve due process.
How dare you deport people without due process?
And then the immediate response is, oh, look at you, you're the best friend of narco terrorists.
I thought, now I'm not predicting this, but I will say I would not be remotely surprised if this decision is at 9-0.
9-0 in the sense that, no, Trump doesn't have the ability to fire her at will.
But it was very clear to me that the Supreme Court, an overwhelming majority of the Supreme Court, had two propositions in their mind.
The Fed isn't like the CFPB.
The Fed isn't like the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Federal Trade Commission or the others.
And that, number two, because it's different, the president doesn't get to just make it up as he goes along, including by substituting truth social posts for proper notice and opportunity to be heard when you're going to fire somebody who can only be fired for cause.
And so I think that that wasโ