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D.C. Circuit Upholds Presidential Removal of MSPB and NLRB Members

On the eve of Trump v. Slaughter, the D.C. Circuit offers a way to distinguish Humphrey's Executor.

Reason

Dick Cheney’s expansive vision of presidential power lives on in Trump’s agenda

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be remembered for many things. He was arguably the most powerful vice president in American history. He was a paragon of conservatism. He was the architect of many of the more extreme measures in President George W. Bush’s “war on terror.”

The Conversation

A Pennsylvania man is missing. His ex-girlfriend’s song about killing an ex has left the family demanding answers

Allegedly, she posted it on his Snapchat account.

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The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

President Donald Trump set the tone for his second term by issuing 26 executive orders, four proclamations and 12 memorandums on his first day back in office. The barrage of unilateral presidential actions has not yet let up.

The Conversation

SCOTUS Is Now Poised To Overrule Humphrey's Executor, a 1935 Precedent Limiting Presidential Power

The Supreme Court will soon review the president’s authority to fire “independent” agency heads.

Reason

S. Ct. Agrees to Hear Merits Case on Whether President Has Power to Remove "Independent" Agency Heads (the Humphrey's Executor Overruling Question)

From today's order in Trump v. Slaughter: The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari before… The post S. Ct. Agrees to Hear Merits Case on Whether President Has Power to Remove "Independent" Agency Heads (the Humphrey's Executor Overruling Question) appeared first on Reason.com.

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Will SCOTUS Let Trump Fire Lisa Cook From the Federal Reserve?

Or will the justices say that Trump fired her for illegal reasons?

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SCOTUS Stays Injunction Against Removal of CPSC Commissioners

Further indication that independent agencies will not be "independent" much longer.

Reason

Supreme Court permits firings at consumer product safety agency - Roll Call

Supreme Court ruling impacts three members of the five-member consumer product agency who were appointed by former President Joe Biden.

Roll Call

Watch out, hallucinating Humphrey’s about in Whitehall

The Guardian - UK

UK government rollout of Humphrey AI tool raises fears about reliance on big tech

Critics question speed and scale of embedding AI into public sector when debate rages about use of copyrighted material

The Guardian - UK

President Trump Made History Last Week on the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket

The Supreme Court very strongly hinted that it will overrule, or greatly narrow, Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935).

Reason

Supreme Court Stays Reinstatement of Fired NLRB and MSPB Members

"Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents."

Reason

Justice Kagan Tells Us What She Really Thinks About President Trump

The Court "hand[s] the President the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever)."

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Supreme Court allows Trump firings from national labor boards - Roll Call

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to fire members of the national labor boards for federal employees and workers.

The Guardian - AU

What is Labor proposing to do with superannuation, and why is it controversial?

Here’s why some are campaigning against plans to make people with more than $3m in super pay a bit more tax

TechRadar

Humphrey to the rescue: UK Gov seeks to save millions by using AI tool to analyze input on thousands of consultations

The UK government’s new AI tool, Consult, analysed public consultation responses, claiming efficiency gains, though questions remain about accuracy, transparency, and long-term policy implications.

The Guardian - UK

UK government to launch AI tool to speed up public consultations

New system will analyse responses 1,000 times faster than a human and save millions, ministers claim

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Evening Standard

Government-built AI tool used to cut admin work for human staff

An AI tool called Consult has been tested as a way of speeding up the analysis of public responses to consultations.

Reason

"The Originalist Case Against Overturning Humphrey's Executor," by Lorianne Updike Schulzke

I was talking to Prof. Lorianne Updike Schulzke (who teaches at Northern Illinois and is visiting this semester at Yale),… The post "The Originalist Case Against Overturning Humphrey's Executor," by Lorianne Updike Schulzke appeared first on Reason.com.

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Trump Fires Democratic FTC Commissioners

The removals challenge Humphrey’s Executor, a Supreme Court precedent that protects independent agency officials from political firings.

Reason

President Trump Targets Humphrey's Executor Directly

President Trump acts to remove two Democratic commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission. Litigation is likely.

Evening Standard

Sally Bretton to see Beyond Paradise and Not Going Out roles ‘collide’ in sketch

She will appear alongside Lee Mack and Kris Marshall in the skit.

Reason

Dellinger v. Bessent Disappears Allowing Wilcox v. Trump to Train Sights on Humphrey's Executor

The Supreme Court will not have to weigh in on removal limitations at the Office of Special Counsel, but it could still have to consider those for the National Labor Relations Board.

Fortune

Trump can kill Fed independence. Why does the norm exist?

The Supreme Court could overturn precedent that protects Chair Jerome Powell from being fired.

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