Summary
Trump’s recent firings of independent agency heads have triggered legal battles that could lead the Supreme Court to overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935), which protects certain officials from at-will removal.
Critics argue Trump is deliberately provoking a test case to expand presidential power.
The DOJ now refuses to defend for-cause removal protections, aiming to bring independent agencies under direct presidential control.
With conservative justices signaling support for revisiting the precedent, the Court may soon decide whether to uphold or dismantle these long-standing protections.
They’ve been so well trained by the conservative propaganda machine that this doesn’t even compute for them. Or they do enough mental gymnastics to convince themselves that the people dying deserve it. My sibling was one of the federal workers cut by musk. We were hoping that musk hurting one of their kids directly would wake them up. But no, elon is going to save america, we have no idea what we are talking about. They didn’t even know who this guy was before November. It’s like their brains were hacked, I can’t explain it any other way. When I was little, my dad would tell us that we were all made in god’s image and that no matter who, we all deserved a happy life. Now he tells us about how he’s suspicious of the “immigrants” at the supermarket. They’ve changed so much it breaks my heart
Fighting for equal rights versus drifting with the tide of religion and right wing politics. They got old. They’re tired. This way is so much easier. And I’m assuming they’re relatively wealthy white people so probably nothing will happen to them.