US Supreme Court Invalidates President's Power For Firing Executives

In various areas, the Supreme Court turned down the controversial arguments supporting the idea of enabling the president to easily remove teams in charge of agencies in the country, thus keeping a balance in management which is beneficial in any state.

US Supreme Court Invalidates President's Power For Firing Executives

It can be noted that the Supreme Court of the USA refused to increase the power of the president and decided about impossibility of the release of leaders of independent federal agencies simply for the reason that the president does not like them. This means that there will remain changes to the law that allow the agency head to be removed only for good cause. This in turn preserves the functions of bodies such as the Federal Reserve or the SEC and hence their value in holding the U.S. government accountable.

Control of the Executive by the President

With respect to this issue in particular, it was argued then that the president should not act first in the removal of these heads at these two prominent and key agencies most likely owing to the threat of excessive control by the executive. Critics state that expanding the president's removal power with respect to agency heads recall increases the tendency of such apolitical bodies to dance to the tune they have been put to shelve. The Supreme Court’s disinterest in taking all these arguments into account and resolving the issue raised in this case reveals the status quo be appreciated, where no agency opinions are available such that agency leaders are not shot from the hip, thus protecting a triangular system of power. Checks and Balances Reinforcement Gun control is seen as the best way of preserving reasonable limits on the power of the president when it comes to controlling agencies such as the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This judgment must be understood against broader prevailing discussions on the limits that should be accorded the executive in the U.S. political system, a call which seeks to prevent such agencies from the white house’s influence.