{"id":211,"date":"2026-06-30T04:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:12:06","slug":"the-supreme-court-just-gave-trump-a-terrifying-new-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a Terrifying New Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2282650463.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a Terrifying New Power\" title=\"The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a Terrifying New Power\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_7ddd86878b682b28259fb30d69f347f3\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>In a pair of twin rulings, the court undermined the independence of the key independent agencies\u2014except one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump during a kickoff celebration for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credits\">(Bonnie Cash \/ UPI\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">On Monday, the Supreme Court vastly expanded the president\u2019s power by ending the independence of the country\u2019s independent executive agencies. It did this in a ruling that gives the president the power to fire the people who run these agencies \u201cat will\u201d rather than \u201cfor cause.\u201d This change doesn\u2019t just mean that Donald Trump and Elon Musk can chainsaw their way through the federal government. It means that Trump, or whoever is president after him, can undermine the entire regulatory structure that constrains the smash-and-grab capitalism favored by the Epstein class. It means that institutions that regulate business, banks, public health, and the environment are nothing more than puppets of the administration in charge.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, one key agency, and one alone, that is protected from the whims of the president: The Federal Reserve Board. That\u2019s right, the institution that protects the monetary policy that capitalists rely on to make their billions is the one agency that can\u2019t be messed with every time the president has a nutty. In a second case, the court ruled that the president does <em>not<\/em> not have the power to fire a board member of the Fed.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the Federal Reserve Board so special? I have my theories, and all of them involve the justices\u2019 business sense\u2014and not their legal acumen.<\/p>\n<p>The facially contradictory rulings arrived via two decisions, both written by Roberts, that were literally bound together with a rubber band when the court handed the opinions out to reporters. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/25-332_qn12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Trump v. Slaughter<\/em><\/a>, the court ruled, 6\u20133, that Donald Trump <em>could<\/em> fire Rebecca Slaughter from her position as a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/25a312_5468.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Trump v. Cook<\/em><\/a>, the court ruled, 5\u20134, that Trump <em>could not<\/em> fire Lisa Cook, a board member on the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts would have you believe that the differences between the two outcomes stem from the differences in the two agencies. In <em>Slaughter<\/em>, Roberts argued that Trump can fire Slaughter whenever he wants because Congress does not have the authority to create an independent executive agency whose leaders cannot be fired at will by the president. He argued that such protections violate the constitutional separation of powers.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts\u2019s exact argument was rejected by the Supreme Court 90 years ago in a case called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1900-1940\/295us602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Humphrey\u2019s Executor v. US<\/em><\/a>. That case involved Franklin Delano Roosevelt trying to fire (wait for it) a commissioner on the FTC. Roosevelt, like Trump, didn\u2019t really have a reason for firing the commissioner. He just felt that it was a bad idea to have a member of the opposition party on a commission that was tasked with implementing some of his New Deal policies. In <em>Humphrey\u2019s Executor<\/em>, the court rejected Roosevelt\u2019s attempt to give the president more power and upheld the independence of executive agencies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"current-issue-block_7ce8a3a3e0a5f0ec674be0e0a7aa0c39\" class=\"current-issue  float-l-w-2\">\n<h4 class=\"current-issue__title\">\n                    Current Issue<br \/>\n            <\/h4>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/july-august-2026-issue\/\" class=\"current-issue__cover\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cover0726-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of July\/August 2026 Issue\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That precedent didn\u2019t matter to Roberts. He explicitly overruled <em>Humphrey\u2019s Executor<\/em>, writing: \u201cIf anything more is left of <em>Humphrey\u2019s<\/em>, the Court overrules it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As justification for this wholesale rejection of precedent, Roberts turned back to the Reconstruction era and adopted the arguments laid out by former Confederates eager to amplify the power of President Andrew Johnson in the face of a progressive Congress. The post\u2013Civil War Congress had passed a law requiring Johnson to consult Congress not just about the appointment of officials but also about removing officials as well. Former Confederates objected, as did President Johnson. Roberts noted Johnson\u2019s \u201cresistance,\u201d but skipped the part where Johnson lost. Roberts then claimed that his court is merely restoring the authority that the nation\u2019s founders had originally given to the president.<\/p>\n<p>In making these arguments Roberts ignored not only history and precedent but basic reality\u2014which is to say, the fact that Congress, which set up these executive agencies through legislation, has relied on the idea that commissioners would be protected from the whims of the president when creating these agencies. But the three liberal justices were all over this gaping hole in Roberts\u2019 argument. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, argued that Congress created these agencies with the intention that they\u2019d be independent and that removing this independence changes the entire federal regulatory regime in one chaotic swoop.<\/p>\n<p>Which it does. For the most part, Congress has created executive agencies such that some critical area of governance can be managed by people insulated from political pressure. It\u2019s an attempt to let <em>experts, not politicians<\/em>, make decisions. If Congress had known that every one of these agencies would require its personnel to swear loyalty to a corrupt demagogue, it likely wouldn\u2019t have created the agencies in the first place.<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"cta-block_25908e43d67cf11eb88b7330a55f9c65\" class=\"cta float-l-w-2\">\n<p>For Justice Neil Gorsuch, this wrinkle isn\u2019t actually a problem\u2014it\u2019s a gift. As he wrote in his concurrence to Roberts\u2019s majority opinion, Congress likely would not have created agencies like the FTC (or the EPA or literally all the other ones Gorsuch thinks should not exist) if it had known that such agencies would fall entirely under the whims of the president. For those reading between the lines, this is why Gorsuch (and probably all the other Republicans) will have no problem striking down regulations made by these agencies in the future, should Democrats ever win back control of the White House. Sure, a Democratic president can now fire everybody Trump has hired, but whenever those new Democratic appointees try to <em>do<\/em> anything, Gorsuch will be there waiting in the tall grass to strike them down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">If independent agencies are dead, and if they shouldn\u2019t have been created in the first place (but for the alleged wrong turn the country made during Reconstruction and the New Deal), and if the president can fire everybody at will, then why the hell can\u2019t he fire people on the Federal Reserve? According to Roberts, the Fed is special because\u2026 it is the modern incarnation of the First and Second National Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The First National Bank was created by the first Congress to pay off the national debt from the Revolutionary War (there\u2019s a rap battle in the musical <em>Hamilton<\/em> about this). It was a \u201cquasi-public\u201d institution, with members drawn from private institutions (regional directors of other banks) who couldn\u2019t be fired at will by the president. Since the First National Bank (and eventually, the Second National bank, which was the successor national bank until President Andrew Jackson literally packed the Supreme Court to get rid of it) existed during the founding era, with no complaint from the president (except, again, Jackson!), Roberts argued that protecting the Fed\u2019s commissioners from being fired does not offend the constitutional separation of powers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a neat story\u2014if only it weren\u2019t nearly untethered from facts or history. The reality is that the Federal Reserve is not a mere successor to the First or Second National Banks. It was created as an entirely new thing in American history, with a structure different from either of the earlier national banks\u2019. And it wasn\u2019t created in 1789 or even in the 18th or 19th centuries. The Fed was created by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreservehistory.org\/essays\/federal-reserve-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Reserve Act<\/a> in 1913\u2014some 80 years after the demise of the Second National Bank\u2014and signed by President Woodrow Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to know what Wilson and Congress created the very next year? The Federal Trade Commission. Wilson signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/legal-library\/browse\/statutes\/federal-trade-commission-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Trade Commission Act<\/a> in 1914. We\u2019re talking about two agencies that were created by Congress with independent commissioners who could be appointed by the president but not fired by the president, except for cause. Both agencies were passed by the very same Congress and authorized by the very same president. That makes them legally indistinguishable from each other in terms of their impact on the separation of powers. By acting like the Fed goes all the way back to the founding while the FTC is some newfangled thing, Roberts is simply getting his history wrong, and assuming that only Doris Kearns Goodwin has the inclination to fact-check him.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts isn\u2019t a dumb man, for all his faults. He must know that everyone from Kearns Goodwin to Wikipedia will point out the historical relationship of the FTC and the Fed. So if he\u2019s being willfully and publicly ignorant about the structural similarities between the two agencies, it\u2019s worth asking why. Here again, another justice gives the key insight into Roberts\u2019s thinking. In his concurrence in <em>Cook<\/em>, alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh gives away the game. Kavanaugh, who was more or less the deciding vote, wrote: \u201cAs the Court\u2019s opinion explains and the Government agrees, the Federal Reserve occupies a unique role in the U.\u00a0S. Government and maintains critical responsibility for the stability and success of the U.\u00a0S. and world economies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fed\u2019s independence stabilizes the US and the global economy. The FTC\u2019s independence allows consumers to complain about the unfair business practices of billionaires. This is why one agency is \u201cspecial\u201d and the other is not. This is why the Fed gets to remain independent while all the other agencies will fall under Trump\u2019s thumb.<\/p>\n<section aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad fullwidth-ad contained row position-relative ad-block alignfull \">\n    <!--Ad policy starts here--><br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"mid-ad-policy\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n        <!--Ad policy ends here--><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\"><em>Slaughter<\/em> is the most consequential ruling in this term for how the government is allowed to function, and the result is a huge power grab for Donald Trump. He\u2019ll crow about <em>Slaughter<\/em> but rage about the Supreme Court\u2019s refusing to allow him to fire yet another Black person (Lisa Cook happens to be Black). He\u2019ll act like a spoiled teenager complaining that the new pony he got for his birthday is hazel instead of white. But between this decision and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/chevron-deference-supreme-court-power-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024\u2019s <em>Loper Bright<\/em> ruling<\/a> (which eliminated the deference given to executive agencies), the Republicans on the Supreme Court have all but completed their long-term goal of destroying the administrative state.<\/p>\n<section id=\"popular-block_6bc133d9fcdc0a484af7d9a185e12536\" class=\"popular-articles\">\n<div class=\"swiper\">\n<p><h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p>            <span class=\"swipe-msg\"><span class=\"sr-only\">\u201cswipe left below to view more authors\u201d<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<ol class=\"popular-articles__list\">\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Most of the regulations that constrain business, protect workers and the environment, and set standards for public health and safety come through executive agencies. Every single one of those regulations is now suspect, and Trump can fire almost every single regulator in the federal government who doesn\u2019t pledge fealty to him.<\/p>\n<p>Except the Fed. Because Roberts and Kavanaugh didn\u2019t feel like crashing the global economy and tanking their 401Ks today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div aria-hidden=\"false\" id=\"article-editor-note\" class=\"article-editor-note-1 tn-editor-none-module\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-editor-note-blocks\" id=\"editor_note\">\n<p>With the midterm elections now firmly upon us, the question is whether Democratic candidates will do more than merely occupy ballot lines as mild alternatives to the red-hot crisis that is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump spends over $1 billion a day on a globally destabilizing war on Iran and admits that he doesn\u2019t \u201cthink about Americans\u2019 financial situation,\u201d millions across the country are struggling with the surging costs of essentials. Democrats must seize this moment and advance bold, small-\u201cd\u201d populist ideas\u2014not settle for cynical caution that once again snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Nation<\/i> elevates progressive ideas, movements, and elected officials achieving real change across the country into the national conversation. At the same time, our journalists are exposing how crypto and AI-funded super PACs are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to knock out candidates they oppose, reporting on the devastating impact of the Supreme Court\u2019s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act, and sounding the alarm on attempts by red states to quickly redraw electoral maps, disenfranchising Southern Black voters.<\/p>\n<p><b>We can play this critical role because of support from readers like you. This June, we\u2019re raising $20,000 to power <i>The Nation<\/i>\u2019s independent journalism in the run-up to November\u2019s immensely consequential elections.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in our power to build a more just society, and your support at this critical moment brings us closer to that bold vision. I hope you\u2019ll donate today.<\/p>\n<p>Onward, <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\\&quot;font-size:\" background-color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" var=\"\" color:=\"\">Katrina vanden Heuvel<br \/>Editor and Publisher, <i style=\"\\&quot;font-size:\" background-color:=\"\" rgb=\"\" var=\"\" color:=\"\"><span>The Nation<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/elie-mystal\/\">Elie Mystal<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElieNYC\" class=\"article-end__author-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n                            <default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"17\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 17 14\" fill=\"none\"><br \/>\n\t<default:path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M15.2054 3.54558C15.2122 3.6951 15.215 3.84463 15.215 3.99527C15.215 8.58792 11.7194 13.8834 5.32683 13.8834C3.36455 13.8834 1.53779 13.3083 0 12.3221C0.271606 12.354 0.548252 12.3702 0.828257 12.3702C2.45677 12.3702 3.95536 11.8147 5.14483 10.8829C3.62384 10.8543 2.34085 9.84963 1.89844 8.4692C2.11068 8.51008 2.32797 8.53136 2.55253 8.53136C2.87006 8.53136 3.17695 8.48936 3.46815 8.40984C1.87772 8.09008 0.680414 6.68501 0.680414 5.00273C0.680414 4.98705 0.680414 4.97305 0.680414 4.95793C1.14858 5.21833 1.68452 5.37514 2.25461 5.39362C1.32219 4.76921 0.708415 3.7063 0.708415 2.5006C0.708415 1.8633 0.879778 1.26633 1.17882 0.753361C2.89302 2.85621 5.45395 4.23887 8.34249 4.38392C8.28313 4.12967 8.25233 3.86423 8.25233 3.59206C8.25233 1.6729 9.80861 0.117188 11.7278 0.117188C12.7274 0.117188 13.6301 0.539436 14.2641 1.21425C15.0559 1.05913 15.8002 0.769041 16.4716 0.370873C16.2118 1.18289 15.6602 1.86386 14.9428 2.29395C15.6462 2.20939 16.3159 2.02235 16.9392 1.74626C16.4739 2.44292 15.8842 3.05557 15.2054 3.54558Z\" fill=\"#666666\"\/><br \/>\n<\/default:svg><br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Elie Mystal is\u00a0<em>The Nation<\/em>\u2019s justice correspondent and a columnist. He is also an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Type Media Center. He is the author of two books: the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/allow-me-retort\"><em>Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy\u2019s Guide to the Constitution<\/em><\/a> and <em>Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America<\/em>, both published by The New Press. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/elie\/\">subscribe to his <em>Nation<\/em> newsletter \u201cElie v. U.S.\u201d here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Tag ID: thenation_incontent_2 --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- Tag ID: thenation_registration_billboard --><\/p>\n<section class=\"collections collections--col-0\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"collections__title\">More from <span class=\"not-italic\">The Nation<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"collection__row\">\n<div class=\"collections__card   \">\n            <a class=\"collections__card-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/president-aoc-zohran-mamdani\/\" aria-label=\"Why Zohran Mamdani Just Made the Case for an AOC Presidential Run\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"collections__card-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty-793x500.jpg 793w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aoc-mamdani-bernie-getty.jpg\" alt=\"New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (C) holds hands with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at the end of a campaign rally at Forest Hills Stadium in the Queens borough of New York City on October 26, 2025.\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"collections__card-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>All of the mayor\u2019s endorsed candidates won last week. 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https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2194585061-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2194585061-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2194585061-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2194585061-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2194585061-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2194585061-793x500.jpg 793w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2194585061.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Ellison, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"collections__card-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>The billionaire 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https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2183146726-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2183146726-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2183146726-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2183146726-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2183146726-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2183146726-793x500.jpg 793w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2183146726.jpg\" alt=\"Americans Want to Impeach Donald Trump\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"collections__card-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>So why aren\u2019t Democrats doing something about it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"knockout \">\n                    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