Can Trump v. Slaughter be Used to Challenge the Continued Legality of Executive Agencies Congress Intended to be Independent?
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Donald Trump and FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. In today's decision in Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled that laws protecting the heads of "independent" executive agencies from firing are unconstitutional, because they infringe on the president's constitutional removal authority. In my last post, I noted that the exact scope of this principle is unclear, given the exception the Court carved out for members of the Federal Reserve Board in Trump v. Cook, also issued today. Bu
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