For Now…..
The case is actually in the lower Federal Courts and the Supreme’s COULD actually support a lower Federal Court ruling against Trump, if the Right Leaners on the court get a ruling FOR the Board members , which one could doubt with this handed down. It only affects 2 people, but a ruling in favor to Trump , could lead to a mass firing of other ‘so called’ independent board members…
The High Court , with the normal Right-Left thing has NOT put the fired people back into their Board spots while the case goes on in ….
This court , in this move is going against a almost 100 year view that Congress CAN create Independent boards that operate separate from the President…
The Right leaners in the High Court are hanging on the view that these boards operate IN Executive agencies that a President controls….
Bottom to TOP irregardless of the ‘intent’ of Congress…..
The High Court DID move to make sure the United States State Financial System doesn’t get a shock by affirming that a President MUST show ’cause’ to Congress to get rid of the head of the Federal Reserve, thus locking Trump out of getting rid of Fed Chair Jerome Powell for ‘Political’ reasons….
“Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President,” the conservative majority said, “he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents.”
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in April allowed the administration to remove Wilcox and Harris while the full court weighed how to proceed with their cases, which could affect dozens of similar independent agencies.
Lawyers for the two women said their cases also test whether the president has free rein to fire the head of the Federal Reserve Board, which sets monetary policy. But the court’s order emphasized that its reasoning does not apply to the Fed, which the majority said is “a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition of the First and Second Banks of the United States.”
Instead, the order reflects the majority’s view that “the Government is likely to show that both the NLRB and MSPB exercise considerable executive power.”
The conservatives said they were withholding a final decision on the firings until after the case receives full briefing and argument, adding that “the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty.”
In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan blasted her colleagues for using the court’s emergency docket to make a significant statement about an issue with implications for the fundamental structure of the federal government….
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