Supreme Court Gets Chance to Remake Government

“President Trump’s firing spree at federal agencies has snowballed into a Supreme Court showdown over how modern American government should work,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Dangling by a thread is the tradition that certain sensitive policy details—from regulating nuclear reactors to setting safety standards for consumer products—should be managed by bipartisan panels of technocrats, whose jobs are insulated from political pressure.”

“In its place, the high court appears poised to enshrine a competing view championed by Trump: that presidents must have the power to dismiss any of these unelected experts for any reason—or no reason at all. That is the only way, proponents say, to cut red tape and ensure that regulators remain accountable to voters.”