Washington, D.C. — In response to today’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Trump v. Slaughter, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) issued the following statement from Senior Director of Judiciary and Democracy Doug Lindner:

“While the Trump administration continues to recklessly grab power from the people, extreme MAGA justices on the Supreme Court appear poised to hand over even more power to the MAGA president at the cost of our freedoms and protections. Giving Trump the green light to fire leaders of independent agencies in defiance of law passed by Congress is anti-constitutional and overturns nearly a hundred years of the Supreme Court’s own precedent. It would endanger our health, safety, freedoms, and protections from corporate abuses at a time when corporate money and power are rising in our politics due to rulings by these same MAGA justices. Preventing abuse of power is critical to ensuring our democracy works for all people across our country. We need judges who will respect the rule of law instead of enabling authoritarianism.”

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