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Supreme Court Backs Trump's Power to Fire Agency Officials

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  • #Governance
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  • #United States of America
Supreme Court Backs Trump's Power to Fire Agency Officials
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MAY 23
Above: U.S. President Donald Trump departs the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Image copyright: Kevin Dietsch/Staff/Getty Images News via Getty Images
story last updated MAY 23

The Spin

Pro-Trump narrative

Trump has secured another significant victory in his systematic campaign to reshape American governance. This Supreme Court ruling grants the president unprecedented power and fundamentally alters the balance between executive authority and institutional independence that has long defined federal oversight.

FortuneWashington Times

Anti-Trump narrative

The Supreme Court has shamefully capitulated to Trump's authoritarian assault on American democracy, blessing his unprecedented destruction of independent oversight bodies designed to protect citizens from executive overreach. By allowing him to fire regulators at will — defying 90 years of legal precedent — the Court has effectively handed a wannabe dictator the keys to dismantle America's constitutional safeguards.

New York TimesCourthousenews

Metaculus Prediction


Public Figures

Donald Trump

Jerome Powell


The Controversies


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