Maintenance in progress

the us supreme court overruled humphrey's executor, holding congress cannot limit the president's power to remove principal officers at independent agencies. within the same week, trump allies described the ruling as a procedural roadmap for removing federal reserve governors, and the acting director of national intelligence — a figure with no security background — began terminating dozens of intelligence officials. three separate removal actions converging on one legal theory in one week is structurally unusual for institutions designed to move slowly.

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