Elizabeth Jo

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99% Invisible · Constitution Breakdown #5: Dr. Tom Frieden · 26 Dec 2025 podcast

It asks, can Trump simply fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC?

Even though Congress has tried through legislation to provide some protection for commissioners of the FTC.

Now if the Supreme Court decides to allow Trump to do this

This means trouble not just for the FTC, but the job protections for many other federal commissions and boards that are within the executive branch.

These are the agencies meant to protect consumers, workers, the environment, all kinds of things.

Yeah, so and in one way it's not just Trump, right?

It's a longstanding conservative movement that was building long before Trump assumed office.

But the conservative argument, and Trump's argument, is that everybody, every single person within the executive branch should be within the control of the president.

Otherwise, they're totally unaccountable.

Now, I mean, that's kind of silly, right?

Because they're accountable in lots of different ways, but that's the conservative argument.

And it's one that the Supreme Court

Court might adopt in this case that I've mentioned.

And it's pretty clear that the Supreme Court is very interested in this question because this is not the only case that they are considering this term.

This term, the Supreme Court will also consider whether Trump can fire a member of the Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook.

She had been appointed by Biden for a 14-year term, which is the regular term, right?

But Trump said, I want to fire you, right?

So one of the big problems here is that you have a conservative majority on the court.

And remember the Roberts court has been around now for twenty years, right?

The conservative majority on the Roberts Court wants to be protective of a very particular view of presidential power.

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