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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The MSPB's loss of independent status directly follows the Supreme Court's ruling allowing at-will removal of agency heads.
It details how the Supreme Court's dismantling of independent agency removal protections has allowed OPM to strip the MSPB of its independent adjudicatory role.
The Supreme Court dismantled the constitutional protection of independent agency commissioners by allowing at-will presidential removal.
The Supreme Court ruled that because the FTC exercises executive power, its commissioners must be removable by the President at will.