🔗 Trump illegally fires Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission:
On Friday, Donald Trump abruptly removed the three sitting Democrat appointees on the five-person U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission – the independent watchdog agency that issues recalls and regulates everyday products, including consumer electronics. With no apparent cause for removal, the firings violate existing Supreme Court precedent dating back to 1935, as did Trump’s removals of the Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) back in March.
It feels hopeless when nothing comes of it.
If there’s one truth that Trump is proving its that, lacking any kind of effective enforcement, the law means nothing. I share in your hopelessness, but I feel like more and more people are going to start protesting. With large enough numbers, it will become a real movement of, by, and for the people. So, let’s retain some hope, even in the face of such devastating bleakness.