The Supreme Court 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 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.

    • Loaf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      The justices, in a 6-3 decision powered ​by the court’s conservative majority, invalidated tenure protections for FTC members enacted by Congress more than a century ago. In doing so, the justices overruled the court’s pivotal decision in a case called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. ‌Trump last year dismissed the FTC’s Rebecca Slaughter over policy differences

      Yup.