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Justice Kagan argues that by weakening restrictions on the president’s removal power, the Supreme Court is handing Trump “the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever).” That’s probably factually correct as a description
Important SCOTUS ruling on the president’s power to remove those working on him that hints at the unconstitutionality of the entire hyper-protected “independent” oversight bureaucratic structure that wields so much power in the modern administrative state, and a strong rebuke to https://t.co/rRoYMLCzAX
"The impatience to get on with things— to now hand the President the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever)—must reveal how that eventual decision will go," Justice Kagan says in dissent https://t.co/d3UsgykQCq https://t.co/nnJ5ZPUDEK
The Supreme Court has effectively overruled the precedent set by Humphrey's Executor, affirming the President's authority to run the executive branch with broader removal powers over executive officials. This ruling supports the unitary executive theory of the Constitution, granting the President more direct control over the administration. Justice Elena Kagan dissented, warning that the decision hands the President "the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever)." The ruling challenges the constitutionality of the current structure of independent oversight agencies, which have significant power in the modern administrative state, by weakening protections that previously limited the President's removal authority.
