{"id":20701,"date":"2025-12-10T21:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:04:09","slug":"trumps-plans-to-shatter-the-bureaucracy-have-a-green-light-at-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20701","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;some legal experts say that as a practical matter, the administration \u2014 emboldened by the justices \u2014 has already managed to eliminate job protections that have been on the books for nearly 150 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s drive to replace agency leaders and his mass firings across the federal government are all based on the same basic legal concept: the unitary executive theory. It holds that every employee of the executive branch is answerable to, and fireable at will by, the president.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most extreme version of the unitary executive theory holds that the central premise of the civil service \u2014 that rank-and-file government employees shouldn\u2019t be hired or fired for political reasons or simply on the president\u2019s whim \u2014 is unconstitutional because it tramples on the president\u2019s power to control the federal government.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/07\/supreme-court-trump-firings-humphreys-executor-00679728\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/07\/supreme-court-trump-firings-humphreys-executor-00679728<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;some legal experts say that as a practical matter, the administration \u2014 emboldened by the justices \u2014 has already managed to eliminate job protections that have been on the books for nearly 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s drive to replace agency leaders and his mass firings across the federal government are all based on the same basic legal concept: the unitary executive theory. It holds that every employee of the executive branch is answerable to, and fireable at will by, the president.  <\/p>\n<p>The most extreme version of the unitary executive theory holds that the central premise of the civil service \u2014 that rank-and-file government employees shouldn\u2019t be hired or fired for political reasons or simply on the president\u2019s whim \u2014 is unconstitutional because it tramples on the president\u2019s power to control the federal government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/07\/supreme-court-trump-firings-humphreys-executor-00679728<\/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":[617,221,927,528,170],"class_list":["post-20701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701","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=20701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20703,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions\/20703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}