[contentcards url=”https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/12/media-pout-that-scotus-could-put-the-kibosh-on-bureaucratic-sabotage-of-gop-presidents/”]
If you read and watched nothing but legacy media coverage of the Supreme Court this week, you’d come away thinking that a majority of justices are prepared to anoint Donald Trump as king of America. Naturally, it’s all complete garbage.
This hyperbolic hullabaloo centers around a case heard by the high court earlier this week known as Trump v. Slaughter. The matter involves Trump’s firing of Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The media-led freakout comes into play because of the likely prospect that a majority of justices are prepared to side with the administration in overturning Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S., a 1935 decision that gave Congress the thumbs-up to limit presidents’ ability to remove members of so-called “independent agencies” like the FTC. As The Federalist previously reported, these “independent agencies” are a part of what has often been referred to as the administrative state, a de facto fourth branch of government that’s been permitted to act outside the normal confines of traditional separation of powers.
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