'Flailing to figure out': Conservative justices show cracks in high-stakes case

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority may be poised to hand President Donald Trump sweeping new power over independent federal agencies in the new year, but recent oral arguments revealed growing unease – and internal cracks – around the right’s long-standing belief that presidents should have near-total control over the executive branch.

That’s according to a Friday analysis in The New Republic, which dissected the case stemming from Trump’s unexplained firing of Federal Trade Commission...