David French

We're literally starting from scratch.

I promise you that.

Tim, that's so uncharacteristic.

You're saying there's some weird stuff going on with MAGA?

No, no.

Okay, I'm skeptical.

Yeah, yeah.

So on Monday, the court heard arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, which is this case about the firing of an FTC commissioner.

Now, this is one of those really interesting areas where old school conservatism meets Trumpism.

Well, I wouldn't say meets Trumpism.

There's some overlap with Trumpism.

And that is that the FTC is one of these multi-member commissions created years ago.

There's a number of these.

where they're located in the executive branch, but they're kind of hybrid agencies.

They're supposed to be in the executive branch, but also immune from some degree of executive branch oversight.

You can only fire the commissioners for cause, for example.

And this has been something that conservatives for a long time, legal conservatives,

have really bristled at because they look at these multi-member commissions as almost creating a kind of a new branch of government.

They're not really under the control of the legislature.

They're not really totally control of the president.