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Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies

7 December 2025 at 22:25
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and other conservatives on the Supreme Court have embraced the so-called unitary executive theory, which holds that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president and that he must be able to control everything the executive branch does.
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