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Steve Vladeck
Steve Vladeck
@stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#SCOTUS is likely to do the right thing in the Lisa Cook case. But it's worth bearing in mind that this idea that the Fed is some bespoke exception to the unitary executive theory is utterly incoherent as a matter of both law and history—and is really just proof that the UET is itself bollocks:

153. Living by the Ipse Dixit

  1. Living by the Ipse Dixit
A constitutional principle like the "unitary executive theory" isn't worth all that much if the Supreme Court can conjure new, unprincipled exceptions to it by simply asserting that they exist.
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