Congress made agencies like the Federal Trade Commission independent, with members removable only for cause. He fired two Democratic commissioners anyway. To uphold it, the Supreme Court's conservative majority overruled a unanimous 90-year-old precedent 6–3. Justice Sotomayor wrote that the Court “undoes centuries of political practice” and hands the president “a power unknown even to the English Crown.”
SourcesThe decision, SCOTUSblog · What it means, NPR
