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In a win for separation of powers, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed on Monday that presidents can remove members of so-called \u201cindependent agencies\u201d like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The huge 6-3 decision along ideological lines overturns longstanding precedent first established in Humphrey\u2019s Executor v. United States<\/em> (1935). <\/p>\n

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Known as Trump v. Slaughter<\/em>, the case centers around a challenge to Trump\u2019s removal of Democrat Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC last year. While the high court initially\u00a0granted\u00a0the Trump administration\u2019s request to temporarily pause a lower court blockade on Slaughter\u2019s removal, it also agreed to take up and address whether existing statutory restrictions on the president\u2019s ability to remove members of so-called \u201cindependent agencies\u201d like the FTC violate existing separation of powers.<\/p>\n

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts how the FTC \u201chas accumulated vast rulemaking, enforcement, and adjudicatory powers under more than 80 statutes\u201d since its creation in 1914, and how it creates rules \u201cthat carry the force of law \u2026 [and] enforces those rules against private parties, collecting civil penalties in the billions of dollars.\u201d He further underscored how such expansive powers belong to the FTC\u2019s appointed commissioners, whose removal is limited by those enacted by Congress. These limits, he said, are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo \u2018discharg[e] the duties of his trust,\u2019 the President must have the assistance of officers he can trust. \u2026 Although it is up to the Senate to decide whether to confirm those with whom the President would prefer to work, neither Congress nor the courts may saddle him with those with whom he cannot work,\u201d Roberts wrote. \u201cSubordinates who exercise the President\u2019s power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the President, and the President to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The chief justice went on to affirm that the court\u2019s Slaughter<\/em> decision overturns the precedent first established in Humphrey\u2019s Executor<\/em>, which dealt with President Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s removal of William Humphrey, a Hoover appointee, from the FTC for partisan reasons. A subsequent challenge to Roosevelt\u2019s actions under the FTC Act \u2014 which placed limits on a president\u2019s removal of FTC commissioners \u2014 resulted in the Supreme Court unanimously holding Humphrey\u2019s removal to be unlawful under the FTC Act. The court said the FTC was different than traditional executive agencies because Congress created it to perform \u201cquasi-legislative\u201d and \u201cquasi-judicial\u201d functions. <\/p>\n

Roberts described the high court\u2019s Humphrey\u2019s<\/em> decision as \u201ca result in search of a rationale.\u201d He noted that \u201cevery factor \u2014 the \u2018quality\u2019 of the decision\u2019s reasoning, its \u2018consistency\u2019 with our other cases, the \u2018workability\u2019 of its rule, and the interests of those who have \u2018reli[ed]\u2019 on it \u2026 \u2014 counsels in favor of letting Humphrey\u2019s<\/em> go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSlaughter argues that Congress has relied upon Humphrey\u2019s<\/em> to create agencies that are \u2018insulated from presidential control.\u2019 \u2026 That is precisely the problem. Despite what Humphrey\u2019s<\/em> may say, independent agencies are not \u2018independent\u2019 in the sense that they are free of the President and thus responsive \u2018only to the people of the United States.\u2019 \u2026. Independent agencies are insulated \u2018from the President,\u2019 \u2018not from politics,’\u201d Roberts wrote. \u201cPlacing the power to administer laws in officers who enjoy \u2018freedom from Presidential oversight (and protection),\u2019 in other words, does not deliver us to a promised land of technocratic governance \u2014 it often results only in an \u2018increased subservience to congressional direction.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Writing on behalf of her fellow dissenting liberal justices, Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the majority of giving \u201cthe President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws.\u201d She further argued the court\u2019s ruling \u201cupends rather than upholds the separation of powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn granting the President this unbridled authority, the Court upends its precedent, misconstrues our history, and sheds any pretense of judicial modesty. I respectfully dissent,\u201d Sotomayor wrote.<\/p>\n

While joining the majority opinion in full, Justice Neil Gorsuch authored a concurrence in which he expressed concern about Congress delegating so much of its authority to the executive branch. While agreeing with the court\u2019s decision and a president\u2019s oversight of \u201cindependent agencies,\u201d the Trump appointee questioned whether Congress would \u201chave delegated so much power, including legislative and judicial power, to independent agencies had it known that the President would come to control them,\u201d and how federal lawmakers will \u201crespond now \u2014 if realistically [they] can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Court today takes a notable step back toward the Constitution,\u201d Gorsuch wrote. \u201cAt the same time, it would be a grave mistake to think that step is enough on its own. The fact remains that Congress has endowed formerly independent agencies not just with executive authority, but with enormous legislative and judicial powers as well. And now the President enjoys control over all those powers too. From here, the only sure path is to finish the journey we start today and restore legislative and judicial powers to where they belong: in Congress and the courts. We have tolerated adventurous theories long enough. It is time to return, all the way, to the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling reverses the D.C. District Court\u2019s initial decision and remands the case back to the lower judiciary for further proceedings consistent with its majority opinion. <\/p>\n

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