Rising This Week: Executing Humphrey's?
Rising This Week: Executing Humphrey's? A 90-year-old bulwark protecting independent agencies may be headed for the Slaughter. Also: Luigi Mangione fights to exclude evidence, and a judge's trial looms. Adam Klasfeld Dec 7 ∙ Preview Supreme Court (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Firsthand, fact-based, and comprehensive coverage of the cases that shape U.S. democracy. For the last 90 years, the Supreme Court’s precedent of Humphrey’s Executor protected independent government agencies from interference by any U.S. president, creating a bulwark in the constitutional separation of powers. On Monday, the Roberts Court will hear oral arguments in the case that will almost certainly overturn it: Trump v. Slaughter , a direct challenge to the 1935 precedent. The outcome isn’t too hard to predict: On Sept. 22, the Roberts Court issued an emergency docket decision allowing Donald Trump to fire the Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter . The...