Supreme Court Will Turn Its Attention to Presidential Authority Over Agencies

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The Shift: Supreme Court Will Turn Its Attention to Presidential Authority Over Agencies

With Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention will shift from its June decision that the nation’s chief executive has immunity from prosecution for his official acts to whether presidents have the authority to fire appointed members of independent federal agencies. The termination issue has been teed up by Trump’s firing without cause of National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox in January.