The conservative majority of the Supreme Court, working in tandem with the Trump administration, appears poised to eliminate independent administrative agencies — that much was clear from Monday’s oral argument on the firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
In a world where immigrants are being disappeared and gerrymandering that would have been clearly illegal a few years ago is being blessed by the justices, should you spend any time caring about whether the Supreme Court overturns a 90-year-old precedentthat protects agency independence?
The answer is yes. Allowing the president to fire commission members at will is part ...
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