Elizabeth Jo
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2,299 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
Elizabeth Jo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What?
Presidents fire agency heads, whatever they want, and fill them with the choices of whatever they want.
Right.
On the other hand,
When agencies in a democratic administration issue decisions, they also seem to be targets for the Supreme Court to say, Oh no, no, you're not allowed to do that, right?
You've exceeded your powers.
So it turns out that agencies can't win either way.
Either they do things that the Supreme Court says, You've exceeded your authority, or when they try to be working within that power.
Then a Republican president Trump will say, Well, I don't like these policies, you're fired.
So the Supreme Court really is just seems to be saying everything is within the control of the president and the present can dictate everything that happens within the executive branch.
So we saw this like you know, in terms of the agency uh stuff, we saw this during the height of the pandemic with the court striking down vaccine mandates, the eviction moratorium.
Even expanded student loan forgiveness was something that really got its start from the inability of borrowers to pay during the worst part of the pandemic.
Those are s a series of agency actions.
Biden during his administration wanted these things to happen.
Even they begin with Trump too, right?
But nope, for the Supreme Court, that was too much for an agency to do.
And so agency power seems to be attacked from every single angle under the Roberts Court theory of, you know, how how the executive branch should be run.
Seems to be strangely dependent on who the president is, right?
Because well, you know, a Republican uh president tends to roll back regulations.
That doesn't seem to be a problem for the Supreme Court.
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