Supreme Court strikes down protections for federal regulatory agency independence, reversing 90-year precedent
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Nina Totenberg
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority struck down long-standing legal protections for the independence of federal regulatory agencies, reversing a 90-year-old precedent that had shielded multimember agency heads from being fired except for misconduct. The decision removes most limits Congress and courts had established to protect regulatory agency independence, affecting roughly a third of the federal government's structure.
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· 2 pulledThe Supreme Court's conservative majority took a sledgehammer to much of the federal government's regulatory structure Monday
The court's decision reversed a 90-year-old precedent that had protected multimember and term-limited agency heads from being fired, except for misconduct or malfeasance in office
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