Brett M. Kavanaugh

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11,273 appearances 217 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2022 last heard 29 Apr

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Supreme Court of the United States · Trump, President of United States v. Slaughter (25-332) · 8 Dec 2025 court

Usually the chair has been removable at will as chair by presidents, but that's been a matter of statute for most of these. podcast-host

Is that constitutionally required? podcast-host

think putting those three together, your position would allow Congress to create independent agencies, maybe converting some of the existing executive agencies into independent agencies with no political balance requirement. podcast-host

with a long term podcast-host

say ten or more years and with the chairs not subject to removal as chair. podcast-host

So you can imagine a situation and just want to give you a chance to deal with the hard hypothetical. podcast-host

a when both con uh Houses of Congress and President are controlled by the same party, them creating a lot of these independent agencies with or convert extending some of the current independent agencies into these kinds of situations so as to thwart future Presidents of the opposite party. podcast-host

And to Justice Barrett's point, I don't think we can just say, oh that hasn't happened, so it will never happen. podcast-host

be the theory? podcast-host

I mean that's what I am getting at. podcast-host

There's uh you know, just picking something out of thin air. podcast-host

Uh what is the theory? podcast-host

How do you answer the accountability theme, which I think is the theme of the other side, is that independent agencies are podcast-host

not accountable to the people, they're not elected. podcast-host

Um podcast-host

as Congress and the President are and are exercising massive uh power over podcast-host

uh individual liberty and billion dollar industries, whether it's the FCC or the FTC or whatever it might be. podcast-host

Try to tick through a few questions here. podcast-host

Uh on Justice Alito's questions, you said independent agencies do rulemaking enforcement and some adjudicatory podcast-host

Um podcast-host

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