Supreme Court appears poised to vastly expand presidential powers The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner At stake is a 90-year precedent limiting the president's power over independent agencies
Court seems likely to side with Trump on president’s power to fire FTC . . . The Supreme Court on Monday morning signaled that it was likely to strike down a federal law that restricts the president’s ability to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission During two and a half hours of argument in the case of Trump v Slaughter, a solid majority of the justices appeared
Supreme Court Poised to Vastly Expand Presidential Power, Again The Trump-leaning Supreme Court justices pretty much shrugged off this language at oral argument, instead seeming to embrace the “unitary executive theory,” a robust conception of presidential power that essentially holds that any and every person who works within the multi-million-member executive branch workforce is merely an appendage of