A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.

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[–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Congress can remove a justice with a majority vote in the house and a 2/3 supermajority in the Senate. This means you can't actually remove a judge unless they lose support from within their own party, and the Republicans have shown that they wont go along with removal no matter what.

This means that in practice, the path forward is to add additional judges, so that the Republicans are a minority, and unable to do any damage.

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