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The lawyer for fired FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter argued that a decision by the justices allowing the president the #power to fire leaders of #independent agencies meant that “everything is on the chopping block.” Justice #Alito immediately jumped in, saying that he was skeptical that ruling would lead to such sweeping ramifications.
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The enormous sweep of last year’s #SCOTUS decision granting #Trump substantial #immunity from prosecution is apparent in this argument, where there has been repeated reference to that decision’s expansive vision of presidential #power.
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Justice #Kavanaugh pushes the lawyer for the fired #FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter about the #Trump admin’s argument that “independent agencies are not accountable to the people.” The justice asked how the lawyer would respond to the argument that “they’re not elected as #Congress & the President are, & are exercising massive power over individual liberty & billion dollar industries.”
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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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The group included some members – like the vice president – who could not be fired at will by the president. #Hamilton, then the Treasury Secy, served on the first Sinking Fund Commission alongside Secy of State #ThomasJefferson, his bitter political rival.
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