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The Supreme Court isolates the Federal Reserve and supports Trump's dismissal of authorities

The building of the US Court of Justice in Washington, July 19, 2024.

Kevin Mohatt | Reuters

The Supreme Court emphasized on Thursday that members of the Federal Reserve Board would have greater protection against being released by a president in a decision that initially enables President Donald Trump to dismiss two members of other federal authorities.

The Supreme Court said in its judgment: “We do not agree” with arguments from Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris that their legal challenges for their termination “are necessarily the constitutionality of the protection protection for the removal for the removal for the members of the governor of the Federal Reserve or other members of the Federal Open Market Committee”.

“The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private unit that follows the different historical tradition of the first and second banks of the United States,” said the majority decision.

The three liberal members of the court deployed the decision of six conservative judges who hold the plaintiffs in the case of their committees because their complaint is pending.

Trump previously released Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board.

A judge of the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, had prevented Trump from removing both women from their respective bodies. An appellate court later confirmed this order.

At the beginning of April, the Supreme Court remained these decisions, while the case continued, which means that Trump did not have to put the women back into their committees.

This temporary arrangement was formalized by the High Court on Thursday after the statement.

“Because the constitution transfers the president's executive authority … he can remove the leading employee who exercises this power in his name without reason, subject to exceptions that are recognized by our precedence,” said the majority in the opinion.

“The stay reflects our judgment that the government will probably prove that both the NLRB and MSPB will exercise considerable executive power,” the statement said. “But in the end we do not decide in this attitude whether the NLRB or MSPB falls into such a recognized exception. This question is better attributed to the solution after full commitment and argument.”

The majority also said that their residence “reflects our judgment that the government 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 officer, which is incorrectly removed because it is unable to carry out its legal obligation.”

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