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Ep. 2456 - LIVE: Ben Breaks Down SCOTUS on Birthright Citizenship
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Following the Gorsuch interview, a brief Mint Mobile spot — featuring the Ryan Reynolds creative conceit about wanting to make $15 bills — bridges the transition to the next block of legal analysis. Shapiro briefly previews the remaining cases: the campaign finance ruling on coordinated party-candidate expenditures, the presidential removal power rulings on FTC and Federal Reserve heads, and the mail-in ballot decision. He sets up the analysis block by noting the incoherence of some rulings sitting alongside each other — maximizing executive power in one case while constraining it in another.
Ben Shapiro noted that the unitary executive theory, which holds the president can fire all executive branch officers, began as a Scalia dissent position and has now become law.
Roberts says the president can fire FTC heads but not Federal Reserve governors, because the Fed is 'independent' in a special way. Thomas and Alito both call this unprecedented. In 237 years, the court had never before blocked a president from removing an executive officer — until now.
SCOTUS struck down FECA's limits on coordinated expenditures between political parties and their candidates, ruling it abridges First Amendment speech. The Chinese wall between parties and candidates was always absurd — parties coordinating with candidates is normal politics, not corruption.
