{"id":27886,"date":"2025-12-24T17:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27886"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:52:20","slug":"scotus-signals-it-may-overturn-90-year-precedent-limiting-presidential-power-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27886","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Signals It May Overturn 90-Year Precedent Limiting Presidential Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court appeared poised this week to deliver one of the most consequential rulings on executive power in nearly a century, signaling it may overturn a 1935 decision that created the modern \u201cindependent agency\u201d structure and limited the president\u2019s authority to remove top federal officials.<\/p>\n

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During oral arguments Monday in\u00a0Trump v. Slaughter<\/em>, several justices suggested that the long-standing precedent set by\u00a0Humphrey\u2019s Executor v. United States<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 which allows leaders of agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission to operate beyond direct presidential control \u2014 may be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The case originated from a challenge to President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission without cause.<\/p>\n

If the Court sides with Trump, it could mark the end of what legal conservatives have long called the \u201cfourth branch of government\u201d \u2014 a network of powerful regulatory agencies largely insulated from voter accountability.<\/p>\n

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Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of the Court\u2019s most vocal critics of administrative overreach, questioned whether Humphrey\u2019s Executor ever aligned with the Constitution\u2019s design.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it\u2019s a recognition that Humphrey\u2019s Executor was poorly reasoned and that there is no such thing in our constitutional order as a fourth branch of government,\u201d Gorsuch said.<\/p>\n

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