Social Security Head’s Job Security Law Held Unconstitutional

The law making it harder for the president to remove the commissioner of the Social Security Administration is unconstitutional, the Eleventh Circuit said, but that finding doesn’t save a claimant’s bid for benefits.

Bradley Rodriguez filed for disability benefits when he was 32 years old. Though he held several jobs over the years, it was always for a short period of time, and he said his mental health problems and the medications he took made him too drowsy to function. An SSA administrative law judge denied Rodriguez’s request, saying that he could still do some jobs. That decision was affirmed ...