The Supreme Court grants Trump application to relieve independent agency members

Washington – The Supreme Court issued an application from the Trump administration on Thursday, which enables the President to dismiss members of independent federal authorities, and suggested that the legal reasoning of the court would not apply to the Federal Reserve.

The move to pause a judgment in court Formalizes a temporary decision in the similar direction on April 9, which made President Donald Trump possible to relieve Gwynne Wilcox, member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, member of the Merit System Protection Board.

“The stay reflects our judgment that the government will probably prove that both the NLRB and MSPB will carry out considerable executive powers,” the court stated in an unsigned order.

The government added, “has a higher risk of damage through an order that enables a distant civil servant to continue to carry out the executive authority than an incorrectly removed civil servant who is unable to carry out its legal obligation.”

The three liberal judges of the Supreme Court presented themselves.

In a remarkable passage, the court tried to distinguish this case from Trump's attempt to dismiss members of the Federal Reserve, including the chairman Jerome Powell. The court found that the Federal Reserve is a “uniquely structured, quasi-private unit” that has its own historical tradition.

Trump has often frustrated about Powell and raised questions whether the white house would displace it, a suggestion that fached the markets.

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Justice Elena Kagan, who wrote for the Dissenschützers, said that the court essentially overridden a key price from 1935, Humphrey's executor against United States, which confirmed the concept of independent agencies that were not directly subject to the president.

In the challenge of this precedent case, Trump decided “to take the law into his own hands” by firing Wilcox and Harris for no apparent reason.

“Today this dish blesses these acts effectively. I would not do it. Our Humphrey's The decision remains a good law and shoots both the presidents' shots and the court's decision to award emergency aid, “wrote Kagan.

The case raises the essential legal question of whether the congress can include provisions in the establishment of federal authorities that should insulate them from political interference that prevent the president from releasing members at will.

Although the Trump shots only affect two agencies, any decision that allows such shots would also apply to other agencies.

In this case, this would raise the question of whether the president has the authority to relieve members of the Federal Reserve, which traditionally operates independently of the White House.

In the recent decisions, the Supreme Court, which has a conservative majority at the age of 6 to 3, decided that provisions for the protection of individual leaders were unconstitutional. But the precedent of 1935, which confirmed the structure of Multimember agencies, remains in the books.

The Trump administration has passed legal arguments that have long been carried out by conservative lawyers who prefer a broad presidential power. These arguments are of the opinion that independent agencies are not sufficiently accountable to the democratically elected president under the separation of powers by the constitution. They argue that the president should be able to dismiss the authorities heads at will.

The then President Joe Biden appointed Wilcox into the Labor Board, who decides disputes at the workplace in 2021. Her five -year term would have expired in 2026. Federal Act states that the president can only relieve members of “due to neglect of duty or misconduct in office”.

Biden appointed Harris in 2022 at a term of seven years, which has similar protection against the distance. The Merit Systems Protection Board takes care of disputes in which federal employees are involved.

Trump tried to shoot both shortly after taking office.

Wilcox and Harris sued and gained in court and asked the government to go to the Supreme Court.