Justice Kagan [I think, maybe it was Sotomayor] just gave Amit Agarwal, the lawyer for fired FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, the opening needed to discuss Professor Caleb Nelson’s article on the “unitary executive theory” I mentioned & linked earlier in the thread. ↑→
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115684689986721167
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The Sinking Fund Commission has come up several times. Historians & legal scholars regard it as the nation’s first #independent agency. Created in 1790 by the first #Congress, the 5-member commission approved payments to settle America’s Revolutionary War debts.
The commission’s structure was proposed by #AlexanderHamilton, who saw it as a way to insulate members from #political pressures.
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