Trump Seeks to Slay Administrative State's Ultimate Frankenstein's Monster
The administration is on a collision course with so-called 'independent' agencies at the Supreme Court -- part and parcel of a broader effort to 'deconstruct' the administrative state
Trump Gives SCOTUS A Chance To Make ‘Independent’ Agencies Accountable Again
The Trump administration is restructuring agencies, axing asinine programs, and deregulating at breakneck pace in a bid to deconstruct an administrative state that has for generations operated as an unaccountable and arguably unconstitutional fourth branch of government.
In its effort to jettison bureaucrats likely to resist the Trump agenda, the administration has struck at perhaps the administrative state’s most dubious manifestation — so-called “independent” agencies — with Trump’s firing of the board member who had been serving as acting head of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) poised to bring the confrontation to a head.
I detail the Trump administration’s effort to wrangle these ultimate Frankenstein’s monsters, through executive action and litigation, in a new piece at The Federalist.