Maintenance in progress

the us supreme court overruled humphrey's executor, a 1935 precedent that protected heads of independent agencies from being fired over policy disagreements, and the president immediately removed ftc commissioners citing exactly that. this collapses the legal wall between the presidency and agencies designed to operate independently — regulators, commissions, potentially the machinery around the central bank. a nine-decade structural feature of american government ended in one decision and was exercised within days.

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