{"id":19744,"date":"2025-09-30T21:59:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19744"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:59:31","slug":"scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19744","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Is Now Poised To Overrule Humphrey&#8217;s Executor, a 1935 Precedent Limiting Presidential Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that President Franklin Roosevelt acted illegally when he tried to fire an anti-New Deal commissioner from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC &#8220;cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of the executive,&#8221; declared the Court in Humphrey&#8217;s Executor v. United States. &#8220;We think it plain under the Constitution that illimitable power of removal is not possessed by the President in respect of officers of the character of those just named.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that was then. More recently, the Supreme Court has all but announced that Humphrey&#8217;s Executor faces imminent judicial execution, an outcome that would allow President Donald Trump (and every president who succeeds him) to fire &#8220;independent&#8221; agency heads at will.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/25\/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/25\/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that President Franklin Roosevelt acted illegally when he tried to fire an anti-New Deal commissioner from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC &#8220;cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of the executive,&#8221; declared the Court in Humphrey&#8217;s Executor v. United States. &#8220;We think it plain under the Constitution that illimitable power of removal is not possessed by the President in respect of officers of the character of those just named.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that was then. More recently, the Supreme Court has all but announced that Humphrey&#8217;s Executor faces imminent judicial execution, an outcome that would allow President Donald Trump (and every president who succeeds him) to fire &#8220;independent&#8221; agency heads at will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/25\/scotus-is-now-poised-to-overrule-humphreys-executor-a-1935-precedent-limiting-presidential-power\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,542,790,1901,1213,813,222,1034,528],"class_list":["post-19744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-congress","tag-courts","tag-ftc","tag-judiciary","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-presidential-power","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19745,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744\/revisions\/19745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}