Humphrey's Executor Executed In Broad Shadow Docket Slaying - Above the Law
Chief Justice Roberts used the shadow docket to allow President Trump's firing of FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, undermining nearly a century of Humphrey's Executor precedent.
Trump's attempt to fire FTC Democrat gets a boost from Supreme Court
Humphrey's Executor (1935) bars presidential removal of FTC commissioners except for inefficiency, neglect, or malfeasance, and is pivotal to current litigation.
