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The Supreme Court expanded executive power by ruling 6-3 that the president can fire leaders of independent regulatory agencies at will
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In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court held that statutory restrictions on the President’s authority to remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners violate separation-of-powers principles, overruling Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), and restoring executive accountability over officers who exercise executive power. Kent Lassman, President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins Newell to weigh in with his take on the decision.