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ceejayozlast Monday at 5:32 PM1 replyview on HN

> Slaughter determined that agencies congress had ceded to the executive branch had control of the executive.

The law Congress passed set rules requiring cause for a firing of an FTC commissioner.

It appears they now lack that power that they've had for almost a century.

Or Alito's new "history and tradition" test, invented out of whole cloth to take out abortion but now being applied to all sorts of things Congress does.


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mothballedlast Monday at 5:37 PM

Statutes don't supersede the constitution and passing one doesn't create that power.

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