🏛️ Politics 1d ago · Pema Levy

The Roberts Court Just Put Trump in Charge of Independent Agencies, Vastly Expanding His Powers

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The Supreme Court on Monday gave the president the authority to remove the leadership of most agencies that Congress had set up to act independently of presidential control. The ruling in Trump v. Slaughter may seem technical, but it represents a radical change in how our American government has functioned since the 1930s and, in some cases, since the founding, by creating agencies that operate with independence from presidential control and the expediency of presidential politics. Rather than a

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