The comments came after the Supreme Court indicated that President Donald Trump does not have the authority to arbitrarily fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
That’s exactly what he’s testing. With SCOTUS continuing to slowly expand the limits of presidential power (even if they haven’t fully accepted the Unified Executive theory), they keep pushing against the guardrails, seeing how much they can get away with.
Humphrey’s Executor was lined up for execution in May with the ruling to stay the lower courts decision to preventing the heads of the NLRB and MSPB from being fired, and I believe they’ll attempt to execute it by firing Powell. Sure, SCOTUS said that they were only ruling in regards to the cases in front of them, but it’s hard not to read how SCOTUS has been ruling as anything other than support for the administration’s plans.
That’s exactly what he’s testing. With SCOTUS continuing to slowly expand the limits of presidential power (even if they haven’t fully accepted the Unified Executive theory), they keep pushing against the guardrails, seeing how much they can get away with.
Humphrey’s Executor was lined up for execution in May with the ruling to stay the lower courts decision to preventing the heads of the NLRB and MSPB from being fired, and I believe they’ll attempt to execute it by firing Powell. Sure, SCOTUS said that they were only ruling in regards to the cases in front of them, but it’s hard not to read how SCOTUS has been ruling as anything other than support for the administration’s plans.