Left: The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Right: President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House, November 25, 2025.(Timothy Epple/iStock/Getty Images; Nathan Howard/Reuters)
The Court has given the president full control of one of the three branches of constitutional government — and created a separate fourth branch in the Fed.
The usual pattern, when the Supreme Court does something historic, is that the historic thing is the headline (celebrated by its proponents, denounced by its critics), while legal analysts sift through the open questions about how far the new ruling goes. Today’s pair of decisions on the president’s power to remove the heads of “independent” agencies reverses that pattern. The decisions showcase Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion in both cases, and illustrate what most drives the chief justice’s critics to distraction. This was the full Roberts experience.
The big-deal, straight-into-the-textbooks case is Trump v. Slaughter. Today’s decision ...
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