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10:01Now PlayingThe SCOTUS Case Trump Won TODAY: The End of Independent Agencies like the SEC & FTC
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10:01Now PlayingThe SCOTUS Case Trump Won TODAY: The End of Independent Agencies like the SEC & FTC
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Trump went 1 for 4 at the Supreme Court on June 29th in four separate cases. Hawk, a former trial attorney, explains why this win may be the most consequential ruling of the day. The case involved Trump's firing of Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. Under decades of established law, the president does not have the authority to fire members of independent boards and commissions created by Congress, which include the FTC, the SEC, and dozens of similar bodies. The conservative majority ruled that Trump does.
Hawk walks through the practical consequences. Every independent agency created by Congress to operate free from presidential interference is now explicitly partisan. Every new president can come in and fire everyone, replacing them with political loyalists regardless of expertise. Career experts in securities law, antitrust, communications, and other specialized fields will have little incentive to serve on these bodies knowing they will be removed the moment a new administration takes office. The system that has functioned for over 200 years gets replaced with tit-for-tat hiring and firing every four years.
Hawk traces this ruling directly to John Roberts' 44-year pursuit of the unitary executive theory, a framework Roberts has been advancing since he began working as a government attorney in the early 1980s. Hawk argues the theory runs contrary to the Constitution's deliberate structure placing Congress as Article I and the presidency as Article II, and closes with the observation that any Democrat running for president in 2028 will need to campaign explicitly on firing every Trump appointee to these bodies the moment they take office.
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