The state House speaker’s vindictive campaign against Democrat Nicole Collier has no basis in law. But it’s Texas, where anything probably goes these days.
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It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.
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Yes, his approval rating is tanking and he’s still trying to shake the Epstein scandal. But he’s been foreshadowing this authoritarian power grab for years—and yet Democrats still weren’t ready for it.
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional, dealing another severe blow to the board’s ability to resolve labor-management disputes and enforce federal labor laws across the country.
The case itself reads like a Gilded Age parable. South African–born billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, had asked the court to block the board’s enforcement actions against one of his companies for its alleged anti-union activities. A panel of three Republican-appointed federal judges in Texas, two of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump, agreed with him.
“The Employers have made their case and should not have to choose between compliance and constitutionality,” Judge Don Willett wrote for the panel, referring to Musk’s company SpaceX and two others that had sued on similar grounds. “When an agency’s structure violates the separation of powers, the harm is immediate—and the remedy must be, too.”
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