The Supreme Court did something on Monday that constitutional scholars have been debating for 91 years. It overruled Humphrey’s Executor and told Congress it cannot wall off executive branch officers from presidential removal by dressing them up as “independent.” The vote was 6-3. The decision was correct. And the reaction from the Left tells you everything about how much power they’d built into those supposedly neutral agencies.

The case is Trump v. Slaughter, decided June 29. Rebecca Slaughter, a Federal Trade Commission commissioner initially appointed by President Donald Trump and renominated by former President Joe Biden, was fired in March 2025 on the grounds that keeping her on would be “inconsistent with my Administration’s priorities.” No finding of misconduct. No neglect of duty. Just a straightforward assertion that the executive branch belongs to the executive.