The Supreme Court Gutted Independent Agencies. Congress Must Fight Back, as Trump pursues dictatorial powers with the help of his handpicked SCOTUS.

 Imagine a labor board chair who knows she will be fired if she rules against the president’s friends. Or a consumer safety official who approves a dangerous product because he fears losing his job. That’s no longer hypothetical. It’s the very real consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Trump v. Slaughter.

These fears spring from the court’s decision, today, to allow the president to remove the leaders of formerly independent agencies, not for cause but at the president’s whim. The Supreme Court’s decision guts independent agencies — a fixture of our nation’s executive branch for more than a century, by giving him the power to FIRE whoever he disagrees with.