SCOTUS Ruling Risks Hamstringing the Next President’s Agenda
Slate argues that the Court’s ruling on removing heads of independent agencies could leave a future president with limited leverage to shape leadership in certain commissions, since the Federal Vacancies Reform Act doesn’t apply to multimember agencies. The result could be a split: a new president might inherit holdover members and risk a quorum loss, while an outgoing president could purge commissioners to lock in a policy agenda. The piece urges Congress to extend the Vacancies Act to multimember agencies or convert some to single-head bodies, though reform is unlikely while Trump remains in office and Sotomayor warns of chaos and legal uncertainty.