Save Humphrey’s Executor. Save the Supreme Court (Sort Of)

With a fervor nearly resembling its antagonism toward Roe v. Wade, the conservative legal movement has yearned since the 1980s for the Supreme Court to overturn a far less prominent decision, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the 1935 case that upheld congressional power to create independent regulatory agencies. Independent agencies are administrative bodies whose principal officers may be fired by the president only for good cause. These include the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...