White House counsel says Supreme Court delivered ‘generational win’ on presidential firing power
White House counsel Will Scharf told the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention that the Supreme Court's 6-3 Trump v. Slaughter ruling, letting President Trump fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, was a "generational win" that righted a "historic constitutional wrong." The decision holds the president may fire the heads of most independent agencies at will, upending a nearly century-old precedent along ideological lines.
