“A Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin Of Small Minds”

 The really unfortunate reality:

The unfortunate reality is that SCOTUS already gave Trump all the tools he needs to fire Jerome Powell, and saying "please please please don't do it!" isn't going to stop him.

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the majority's incoherent, self-defeating jurisprudence here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/supreme-court-trump-chicken-jerome-powell-fed-chair.html

...is that the Supreme Court stopped explaining its actions a long time ago. So they don’t need to justify their decision to protect the Chair of the Fed from reprisals. They can just refuse to intervene on the inevitable DOJ appeal of the equally inevitable injunction staying the dismissal and leave the matter for the lower courts until Trump’s term has expired.

Or Powell’s term has expired; whichever comes first. Either way, Trump won’t get to fire Powell, and the Supremes can continue with their “We’re the Supreme Court, bitches!” jurisprudence.

Because honestly, their opinions have just become legalistic dog shit disguising that plain assertion of authority for some time now. And they use the shadow docket to just cut to the chase and save themselves the trouble.