No one should be surprised with this …
The court held that President Trump could not close the agency created by Congress…
But once it was placed in the executive branch?
Trump…or Any President has the right to fire any employee in the organisation…
This has been the case in several times where Congress has put in wording saying agency or department heads could only be fired for ‘ just cause’….
Other President’s have honoured that…
Trump has NOT….
Those provisions are meant to depoliticise the agency heads like the Inspector General Offices’s , the FBI head and the CFPD….
But Trump HAS completely worked to place people politically tuned to HIM ….
He does NOT believe in experts or anyone that does NOT see things HIS way…
Independence is NOT in his vocabulary….
In doing this?
He HAS spotlight the vast powers that an American President have that the founding fathers NEVER thought a President should have…
It’s NOT Trump’s fault…
It IS the politics IN the Congress….
“The agency may therefore continue to operate, but its Director, in light of our decision, must be removable by the President at will,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority.
At issue was the structure of the independent regulatory agency, the brainchild of now-Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) when she was a Harvard University law professor. It was part of 2010’s financial overhaul bill, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed in response to the financial crisis. The agency has been a target of conservatives who have criticized it for acting too aggressively….
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In its ruling Monday, the court majority said the unprecedented structure of the investigative and enforcement agency with its single director violates the Constitution’s separation of powers design by “concentrating power in a unilateral actor insulated from Presidential control,” wrote Roberts, who was joined in part by fellow conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.