Lev Menand
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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We will be litigating over this question all the way up to the Supreme Court.
The beauty of maintaining the Lion and Humphreys executive.
is we never have the fight on the terrain of the Federal Reserve.
The fight is somewhere else.
Once you move the line all the way up to the Federal Reserve, the war will be on the terrain of the Fed.
And in some ways, that's a loss already.
people out too much.
There's a split amongst conservative legal movement, and I think there are some people who want the full thing.
And there are some who want to protect the Fed.
And I think there's a good reason to put Justice Alito, for example, in the camp of the end game being we exempt the Fed.
And Justice Alito, in that dissent, in the community financial services case, which came out last spring.
In footnote 16, which you referenced, Justice Alito is speaking to his colleagues.
He is telling them, we should overturn Humphreys executor.
I've figured out a way to do it without hurting the Fed.
We're just gonna claim that it's a unique institution sanctioned by history.
Of course, all of these independent agencies are unique institutions, and Congress crafted these particular governance arrangements because of the particular
Dynamics in each area.
And so there's a fundamental illogic to Alito's effort.
At the same time, he's just trying to say, if we just say it's a special situation and it's unique, we can get this outcome that we want, which is no independent agencies where these agencies are engaged in policy making that is sort of constraining market activity.
And yes, independent agency for the Federal Reserve, where we're particularly worried about excessive money creation, which is a pro-debtor, you know, creditor unfriendly policy.
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