#seila — Public Fediverse posts
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During #Trump’s first term in 2020, #SCOTUS took another step toward expanding the president’s authority to oust #independent ofcls. In a 5-to-4 decision in #Seila Law LLC v. #CFPB, the court said the structure of the CFPB was unconstitutional because it did not allow the president to fire the director without cause.
But the decision distinguished between government agencies run by a single director & those led by multimember commissions that “do not wield substantial executive power.”
#law 🧵