SCOTUS Affirms Presidential Power Over Agencies, Spares Fed
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- The Supreme Court affirmed presidential authority over independent agencies in Trump v. Slaughter, expanding executive control over these bodies in a recent ruling.
- In a conflicting Trump v. Cook decision, the Federal Reserve retained its autonomy from presidential interference, a split the author argues undermines democratic accountability in economic policymaking.
Why it matters: The Court's uneven treatment creates a patchwork where non-Fed independent agencies now answer to the president while the Federal Reserve — which sets interest rates affecting every borrower — stays independent, producing an inconsistent accountability framework that the author warns erodes democratic oversight of economic policy.
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