One ruling. One ruling is all it took for the U.S. Supreme Court to slaughter the independent, bipartisan operations of a federal agency established by Congress more than 100 years ago. One ruling is also all it took to introduce significantly more regulatory upheaval for the compliance profession.
On June 29, the Court, in a 6-3 majority ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, held that the for-cause removal provision that congressional statute explicitly afforded – arguably, by design – to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 112 years ago is “contrary to the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution,” the Court ruled.
