Snapshot · The Ben Shapiro Show
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.
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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.
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.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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