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President Trump on Monday applauded the Supreme Court’s latest expansion of presidential powers, usurping legal precedent in one of the high court’s final rulings of this term.
“BIG WIN just moments ago at the Supreme Court, in the Slaughter Case, confirming Presidential Power in our Country to remove Executive Branch Officers and Agency Appointees, or Representatives, under Article II,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “This Decision was long sought by United States Presidents, dating all the way back to the 1930s.”
Trump called it “such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers.”
The court’s conservative majority ruled 6-3 that Trump had the right to sack Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic appointee overseeing an independent agency.
Trump fired Slaughter last year, having previously appointed her to a Democratic seat on the commission in 2018. Her term was set to end in 2029 after former President Biden renominated her for a new term.
The ruling overturned the landmark 1935 decision Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. This decision set the standard that certain agencies within the executive branch can operate with their own independence from the White House. These agencies prominently handle large swaths of American life, from federal employee rights and workplace discrimination to product recalls and plane accidents.
Chief Justice John Roberts, in the majority opinion, wrote that if “anything more is left of Humphrey’s, we overrule it.”
The opinion’s influence is likely to impact roughly two dozen multimember agencies across the government and allow any president to install appointees who fit their political mold.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) stands as the agency at the heart of the Humphrey’s ruling’s rise and fall. The high court ruled in 1935 that Congress can rein in a president from firing the heads of agencies with “quasi-judicial” and “quasi-legislative” functions.
The justices at the time responded to then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s firing of FTC Commissioner William Humphrey, an appointee of former President Calvin Coolidge, for disagreeing with the president’s New Deal agenda.
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