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A 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts handed President Donald Trump sweeping authority to dismiss federal agency heads, while separate coalitions of justices blocked his worldwide tariff policy, rejected his birthright citizenship challenge, and preserved Federal Reserve independence in the term that ended last week, according to an analysis by constitutional law scholar John Yoo.
Trump's wins followed the Roberts Court's existing course In Trump v. Slaughter, Roberts wrote for the majority that the president holds constitutional authority to fire, at will, any officer who executes federal law.
The ruling eliminated the independent-agency model established under Humphrey's Executor v. United States, a 90-year-old precedent, with the Federal Trade Commission as the case at issue.
Yoo's analysis notes the Roberts Court had been narrowing agency independence for more than 15 years before the ruling landed. The Court decided in West Virginia v.
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