The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission are unconstitutional and overturned a 90-year-old decision that allowed Congress to shield members of certain independent agencies from being fired by the president at will.
The decision from the high court expands the president’s power over many independent boards and commissions, which Congress had insulated from political pressure by saying their members could only be removed by the president for cause.
So this means the next Democrat is going to immediately fire every Trump appointee right?
… right?
Basically that’s now what can happen. Any agency under the Executive Branch. But seems like Congress f’ed up by putting so many branches under the Executive branch to begin with. Time for Congress to fix that, lol but that’s never going to happen.
Its the constitution or the supreme court, not Congress that fucked up. The president “executes the laws”, the Supreme Court has basically stated that because it’s up to the president to “execute the law” it’s within his purview to not execute the law, as he sees fit. Which means any agency, any law all gets filtered through the president.
This is basically the essence of the Unitiary Executive Theory these project 2025 assholes are spouting, and why it was so quickly identified as dangerous to our country and democracy, but people didn’t listen or care.