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Matthew Cooper

@matthewcooper.bsky.social
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Political Science PhD candidate at UTK. I study American political institutions and public law, focusing on how institutional structure and political actors shape litigation, legal policymaking, and the implementation of law.

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Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This passage from Justice Gorsuch is just so revealing of the tortured psychology of the Court's motivations: we have to risk authoritarianism in order to understand the necessity of building a libertarian utopia; there is no alternative between authoritarianism and absolute economic freedom.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.
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