The Court's right-wing bloc sounds ready to axe independent federal agencies—and the precedents that guard them.

Our heroic lower court judges, and the Justice Department’s war on the only group blocking Trump’s extra-legal push.

The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a ...

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has fired multiple members of agencies that Congress set up to be insulated from political pressures.

The Court’s GOP majority wants grow Trump’s authority, but also give itself a veto power over the president.

On Monday morning, December 8, the U.S. Supreme Court listened to oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter — a case dealing with President Donald Trump's ability, under the U.S. Constitution, to fire ...

The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, is poised to revisit a 90-year-old decision limiting presidential power to remove agency heads without cause. The case questions the unitary ...

In early November, a conservative Supreme Court justice showed a cleareyed understanding of the threat that President Trump ...

This was most explicitly approved by the Supreme Court in two recent cases: Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2020, which stripped the head of the CFPB of for-cause removal ...

We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] ...

The Federal Reserve is best understood not as an administrative agency but as a federal corporation—and thus outside of Trump ...