Lev Menand
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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And under existing law, it doesn't have any legal effect.
Maybe Supreme Court's gonna change the law like they've done before, but I think Pal here has to let her in the building.
And that's going to create a separate showdown between the board, its lawyers, Jay Powell as active executive officer of the board, and the president.
Between the board.
So the carve out isn't direct to this issue.
So
There are these other independent agencies, just like the Fed, Federal Trade Commission, SEC, National Labor Relations Board, and they all say that people have tenure in office for a term of years, and the president can only remove four cause.
And we were talking about how usually those causes are specified.
What the president did earlier this year is say, I don't need to follow that statute.
I don't have any cause to remove you.
I'm just going to remove you.
As if you serve at pleasure because under the Constitution I can do that.
Mm-hmm.
And that case went out to the Supreme Court, and that's what you're referring to.
And that case is called Wilcox.
And in May, the court said, Yeah, you're probably going to win on that, president, because we're into this theory of your inherent powers that's pretty much unmoored from the American legal tradition, but we're going to probably endorse it when we get this case on the merits next year.
And so in the
Meantime, all these people are out of jobs.
And then they said, out of nowhere, because the case doesn't involve the Federal Reserve at all.
They say, Oh, by the way, just in case anybody's like watching who's wondering, like, can I fire people at the Federal Reserve?
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