In the wake of Slaughter, Trump's next moves are easy to predict.
He'll start selling the chair of each agency to the highest bidder.
EPA? Former head of Shell.
FCC? Whichever other children Larry Ellison has.
NLRB? Elon Musk’s favorite union-busting lawyer.
The others? The president, a secretary or… Stephen Miller will just call them up and terrorize them into submission.
Unwilling to submit? You’ll be fired.
Patronage - at it’s best. Washington posts…as rewards.
Too fanciful?
It’s started already: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-terminates-election-assistance-commission-members-2026-07-10/
After the Election
Well enough.
The times, they are a changin'.
To wit, what the Rs can expect:
Sequential, and across the country.
16 states are democratically controlled, all branches - AND AG.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington.
STANDING? State business forced to muzzle their voices, or fail in markets.
State citizens pulled naked from their beds in the glinting light of dawn.
Left standing so - in the streets.
State citizens dying in custody.
Charge every one of these executive office malefactors, sequentially, in all 16. That's right - 16 capital indictments.
"FEDERAL SUPREMACY!"
What's that, now?
Or, "Charge me! But, remove state charge to federal court under federal supremacy!!"
Sure.
But, it don't always work: North Carolina v. Ivory; New York v. DeVecchio; Ohio v. Meade.
Furthermore, when you LOSE on the Federal Supremacy claims (and you will - no federal office entitles you to blackmail, to unlawfully imprison). So, when you lose on Federal supremacy but WIN on removal, the Mesa Test. Still safe?
Not so much.
Removal only HOLDS your STATE trial in a federal venue - it don't immunize.
See?
They are STILL state charges.
Just TRIED in a federal court.
Lose?
You're going BACK to the state, and INTO state prison.
So, Executive Branch - wanna screw around with the law? It is a lot more satisfying when done in the name of justice.
Your, "Within 200-feet-of-the-Oval Pardon" ain't going to help you when you are charged with State crimes.
16 times.
Over 16 months.
Hope you're weren't asked to pay $2M for it, too.
Agencies in the Legislative
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES MOVED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH.
He can sell the chairs off each to the highest bidder.
And, the next Congress can simply close those agencies.
Or, rewrite their directives - turn them all into night-school English classes in Washington for the immigrants we hope to lure back, or law schools for public defenders.
And then, that same congress can create NEW agencies IN THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH to help inform congress and judge outcomes of commerce on shared spaces. Write the laws to be responsive to these.
Such legislative branch agencies already exist. To wit - GAO, CBO and OTA.
LAWS. Lots of them, rewritten to prevent the grift. Or, the re-appearance of such a malefactor, his clan and followers. Presumed, and forewarned - it should be noted, "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
And, it is in bringing STATE CHARGES, that the NEW feds can quietly close all the loopholes that our felon-in-chief and his sons have found, indeed salivated over all their lives.
Wait, a father and his sons working in a enterprise accused of crimes? Dare we say..."a crime family!" (Couldn't resist. Forgive me.)
So, see?
By letting states, sovereigns in their own right, handle the prosecutions, we can move along at the federal level fixing, if you will...broken windows.
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