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But Who Will Execute the Executer? The Supreme Court.

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Law, Opinion, Politics, News, Liberal, Legal, Supremecourt, Harvard, Atheist

4.33.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

OA1215 - We examine why the potential merger of Warner Brothers Discovery with either Netflix or Paramount would almost be certainly illegal under better circumstances before mourning the imminent loss of the independence of the one government agency which is supposed to stop this kind of thing. What exactly is the Federal Trade Commission, and why was destroying it a top priority for Project 2025? We then take a closer look at this week’s oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, in which the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority is poised to turn the FTC and dozens of other independent agencies into tools for Trump’s corruption and graft. Finally, in today’s footnote: why is an actual government website hawking the Trump Gold Card, and can the President really just make up a completely new way to give anyone with one million dollars a new path to US citizenship?

  1. Trump v. Slaughter oral arguments (12/8/2025)

  2. Humphrey’s Executor v. US, 295 US 602 (1935)

  3. Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)

  4. Rebecca Slaughter’s SCOTUS brief

  5. Trumpcard.gov

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0:00.0

You're trying to fire a member of the SDC for something other than cause.

0:06.1

That's exactly what FDR tried to do 90 years ago, and Supreme Court said he couldn't.

0:14.0

This is President Camacho, Lynn. Like like we're in such stupidville.

0:29.4

Hello, and welcome to opening arguments.

0:30.9

This is episode 1215.

0:32.6

I'm Thomas Smith.

0:33.7

That over there is real life immigration attorney.

0:35.8

Matt Cameron.

0:36.3

How you doing, Matt?

0:37.2

Well, once again, I've been listening to Supreme Court arguments about the entire structure of government, so I'm doing great. I'm fantastic. Yeah, these were long ones, too. They're normally like, an hour, hour and a half, maybe, I think. I don't remember them being two and a half hours. Am I wrong? A lot of this could have been an email. Yeah. Dear U.S. citizens, we're fucking the whole system. Right. Signed the conservative assholes on the court. Stary decisis, this means nothing. We're redoing the government. Oh, boy. I wanted to discuss on this. Yeah, it's not a good day. It's not a good, it's not a good week. It's, I mean, it's just a bad court. It's a bad court. Yeah. And it should feel bad.

1:10.9

They are bad and should feel bad. It's not a good, it's not a good week. I mean, it's just a bad court. It's a bad court.

1:11.1

Yeah.

1:12.0

And it should feel bad.

1:14.7

They are bad and should feel bad.

1:15.2

It's true.

1:32.0

Well, we're going to check out some of those oral arguments so we can see what's going on there, what Matt's talking about. We're also going to talk about this big merger and why I think it's a good example of how maybe Trump shouldn't have all the power in the world to be the kingmaker and the deal maker.

1:35.8

There are people who just have to go bring him a gift like a bounty. Might as well be bringing him like a dead animal that they hunted as a trophy, you know, for his feudal crap.

1:42.0

Incredible timing on this merger because it shows exactly why the FTC, which is the agency under review in the slaughter case, needs to remain independent and should not be controlled by the president, let alone this president. Oh, boy. We got to talk about that first, I think. All right. And then I've got a great footnote about the Trump gold card, which you might have heard about. The details have come out. The website has come out. You've got to see this thing. It's quite a story. Wait, the immigration one?

2:04.4

Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm still waiting for my Trump cell phone. Have you heard about that? No, there's Trump cell phone? I remember the Obama phones. Those are real, though. He sold a Trump phone. There's only one color it could possibly be.

2:18.1

Yeah, it is gold. You've got that right. I think it's supposed to be. In June, the two failed sons announced a Trump phone, like a made-in-the-USA Trump phone with an American flag on the back. And that's, you know, that's value right there. Made entirely in America, I'm sure. Yeah, you can't get a stupid piece of plastic that you put on your phone that has American flag on it. You have to get specifically this phone. Right. It was the 10th anniversary of the escalator, by the way. That's fun. That's when they decided to make that announcement. And so they got a bunch of orders. And also I love this because the news agencies were like, well, okay, we'll order one to like to keep up with the story.

2:54.0

So it's like NBC News placed an order for

2:56.0

T1 phone, that's the name of it, in August, paying the $100 deposit for the purposes of tracking

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