The independent regulatory agency is dead.
The administrative state is being structurally dismantled as the judiciary overrules century-old precedents to subject formerly independent commissions to at-will executive removal power.
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By transferring appellate power to the OPM, the administration has effectively dismantled the independent civil service protection board's authority.
The board's voluntary surrender of its own independence label — alongside at-will conversion of its attorneys — shows the Slaughter ruling's structural dismantling operating in real time.
The at-will removal consolidation is pressed to officers the president never appointed — a prosecutor the district judges unanimously chose.
Overruling Humphrey's Executor ends independent-agency removal protections — the definitive death of the independent regulatory agency.
The Supreme Court ruled that because the FTC exercises executive power, its commissioners must be removable by the President at will.