{"id":156605,"date":"2026-07-13T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/13\/rebecca-slaughter-has-a-message-for-yale-grow-a-spine\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:38:25","slug":"rebecca-slaughter-has-a-message-for-yale-grow-a-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/13\/rebecca-slaughter-has-a-message-for-yale-grow-a-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Slaughter Has A Message For Yale: Grow A Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have personal experience of challenging actions of the administration to accrue power for themselves at the expense of Congress, of the people, and I have experienced challenging that all the way up to the highest court in the land.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And my immediate reaction, on reading the story that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale \u2014 with its $44 billion endowment \u2014 does not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Rebecca Slaughter<\/a>, former commissioner for the Federal Trade Commission before she was fired by Donald Trump without cause, in comments given to the Yale Daily News<\/a>, concerning Yale\u2019s settlement talks with the Trump administration<\/a>. Slaughter went on, encouraging her alma mater to stand up for itself, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not fun to push back \u2014 it\u2019s much nicer to sort of think about how to walk away or make it go away in the short term \u2014 but it\u2019s so much better in the long term to stand on principle.\u201d Last month, the Supreme Court upheld Slaughter\u2019s firing<\/a> in a landmark decision, thereby expanding presidential power and overruling nearly a century of precedent. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Rebecca Slaughter Has A Message For Yale: Grow A Spine<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have personal experience of challenging actions of the administration to accrue power for themselves at the expense of Congress, of the people, and I have experienced challenging that all the way up to the highest court in the land.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And my immediate reaction, on reading the story that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale \u2014 with its $44 billion endowment \u2014 does not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Rebecca Slaughter<\/a>, former commissioner for the Federal Trade Commission before she was fired by Donald Trump without cause, in comments given to the Yale Daily News<\/a>, concerning Yale\u2019s settlement talks with the Trump administration<\/a>. Slaughter went on, encouraging her alma mater to stand up for itself, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not fun to push back \u2014 it\u2019s much nicer to sort of think about how to walk away or make it go away in the short term \u2014 but it\u2019s so much better in the long term to stand on principle.\u201d Last month, the Supreme Court upheld Slaughter\u2019s firing<\/a> in a landmark decision, thereby expanding presidential power and overruling nearly a century of precedent. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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