July 1, 2026 Editor, The News-Gazette: The Supreme Court’s decision favoring the president in the case of Rebecca Slaughter v. Trump would allow him, at will, to fire the heads of independent agencies in charge of employment, environment, consumer product safety, communications, the FDIC, Securities & Exchange, and nuclear safety. That is an awesome power, proper to a king and not to the elected president of a democracy!
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