Heather Hurlburt
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So there are literally hundreds of government agencies that would fall in this category.
Everything from environmental oversight bodies to trade oversight bodies and specific trade courts are two examples that come immediately to mind.
Health and medical advisory bodies have also been very much in the news.
And as you said, the court made a very sweeping judgment that all
All of those were subject to the unitary control of the president.
The one sort of interesting comment that I would note.
is that you did have in the previous administration some contracting of presidential authority where this very same Supreme Court held that there were some things the president could not do.
So there's some question of how much the relationship between the Supreme Court and this White House has permanently changed the powers of the presidency.
I think there's no question that it has.
But there's also an extent to which this court has chosen to behave in a partisan partnership with the president in a way that's not unprecedented in US history, but is unusual in U.S.
history.
So among the questions
we have for the future is how many of these changes, how much of this, as you said, unprecedented power will a court be comfortable with when a court has a majority that's politically different from a sitting president?
You've passed your
So Roberts seemed to indicate that he does think a great deal about the court's legacy and the court's legitimacy.
And there's a long history of American Supreme Court chief justices thinking very hard about how to balance between whatever political objectives they may have, views of the law that they may have, and the sense of the court, as you said, Bronwyn in your introduction, as the final arbiter.
The tipping point at the top of US society.
And Roberts has seemed to be trying to tread a very particular path for himself of, on the one hand, definitely wanting to steer U.S.
society back in a more conservative direction, but also being quite sensitive to the level of respect the court holds and having, I think, in his mind, perhaps not always so.
Clearly visible to the rest of us, a line over which he doesn't want to go.
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