President Trump Made History Last Week on the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket

The Supreme Court Undercuts Another Check on Executive Power

Ruth Marcus on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Wilcox, in which the Justices ignored precedent to defend the Administration’s firings of independent-agency heads.

President Trump Made History Last Week on the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket

President Donald Trump began his second term with a sweeping and much needed "firing spree" in which he went after the notorious independent agencies in the so-called Headless Fourth Branch of the Government. A National Labor Relations Board Commissioner and a Merit Systems Protection Board Commissioner, both of whom were protected by statutory clauses providing that they could only be fired for cause, were instead fired at will. The Commissione…

Supreme Court Gives Trump a Quiet, Yet Potentially Large Victory Against Administrative State - The Virginia Star

by Seth Lucas and John G. Malcolm   As Americans began to prepare for Memorial Day weekend, the Supreme Court quietly handed President Donald Trump a significant victory in the fight to rein in the rogue D.C. bureaucracy. In a short, two-page order, the court stayed a district court order that directed Trump to reinstate two federal officials whom he had fired. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, …