Lev Menand
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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And that was struck down.
And the court said, the Humphreys executor exception to the president's power to oversee the executive branch, we will not extend it to this sort of novel.
organization that is two layers removed from the president because the PCAOB is under the Securities and Exchange Commission.
And there was a lot of language in that opinion that made people think, whoa.
These justices don't really agree with Humphrey's executor.
They have a different view of the president, what's going to be next?
And in 2020, you have the CFPB case that you're referencing, Selah Law, in which the court says, Yep, the CFPB, which is a five-year term tenured single-headed agency, we're not going to extend Humphrey's executor to that either.
And Justice Roberts wrote the opinion.
Opinion, and he said, this person has way too much power.
The Humphreys executor, sort of exception to presidential oversight, as he characterized it, doesn't cover the CFPB.
This thing is new.
Congress just created it, and it's not rooted in history.
And people thought, okay, so certain single-headed agencies might not be allowed anymore.
What's gonna happen next?
Next year, 2020.
twenty one the Supreme Court with Justice Alito writing for the court.
Decided a case called Collins versus Yellen and struck down the independence of the Federal Housing Finance Administration, FHFA.
And there the court just said, oh, all single-headed agencies, no matter what, no matter how much power they have, are unconstitutional.
And this covers things like the Social Security Administration, which since its inception has been headed by
By an individual tenured for a six-year term.
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