Lev Menand
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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We think the Federal Reserve probably is a different situation.
But that's with respect to whether the cause language is binding on the president.
And so the president read that.
This is actually all downstream of the Wilcox order from
The court because the White House lawyer said, okay, now we're going to go out and try to find causes that we can sort of manufacture, cook up, and push the envelope on this legal provision.
And so the court didn't protect the Federal Reserve from this in Wilcox.
It in, in some sense, invited the White House to try this.
And so now the case, this case will go back to the secret.
Uh
Supreme Court, presumably.
And the Supreme Court will have to say: does this forecast thing, is it for real?
Or is it just a paper requirement?
Is it just pro forma?
Because the president is treating it like it's nothing more than putting out a press release alongside the removal, which is definitely not how Congress understood it when they wrote the Federal Reserve Act or how this was litigated in the past.
When this was a bigger issue in American government.
Yeah, I think this is a great question and it's come up a few times in conversations that I've had.
I think the thing to understand about the Wheelcox order is how radical it was for the Supreme Court to say that this bedrock precedent on which the US government is designed.
is probably invalid and therefore the president can fire all th all these people don't kill don't get to work while they litigate their cases.
They're out of their jobs.
And so the court in Wilcox embraced such a broad conception of the presidency
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