The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced it will no longer defend the independent status of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). In a letter to Congress, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris informed Senator Dick Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that the DOJ considers the statutory tenure protections for members of these agencies to be unconstitutional. The DOJ plans to urge the Supreme Court to overrule Humphrey's Executor, a 1935 ruling that prevents the president from firing members of independent agencies without cause. This move is part of the Trump administration's effort to assert more control over these regulatory bodies, arguing that they exercise substantial executive power and should be subject to presidential oversight.