The case emerges from Trump’s mass purges of Democratic appointees from independent agencies across the executive branch. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court is expected to rule in favor of President Donald Trump's request to allow him to fire independent agency officials for any reason. These decisions build directly to what the court’s conservatives will do in Slaughter: kill off the independent agencies that Congress created, and eliminate their ability to block presidential agendas. “[T]he Federal Reserve’s independence rests on the same constitutional and analytic foundations as that of [other independent agencies] – which is to say it rests largely on Humphrey’s [Executor],” Kagan writes. However the court’s conservatives choose to contort themselves to protect the Federal Reserve as they kill independent agencies, this won’t be the end of this question.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2025 18:23 UTC