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The Impact of the Election on the FTC

Today's podcast features Stephen Calkins, a law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit and former General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC"). President Trump recently fired, without good cause, the two Democratic members of the FTC, leaving only two Republican members as c…

Ep 136 — Trump Announces Plan To Break Law. Gets Immediately Enjoined. Again.

President Trump's genius plan to announce that he's about to violate the First Amendment — and then do it! — runs into the judicial buzzsaw as two federal courts restrain his attacks on Harvard and the law firm Jenner & Block. And his campaign's lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer continues to…

Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

It wasn't one of the blockbuster Supreme Court cases of the term, but it will shape how power is vested in federal agencies. Cato's Diego Zuluaga and Will Yeatman comment on Seila Law v. CFPB. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Case Preview: Trump, President of United States v. Slaughter | Presidential Power Play: Trump's Total Takedown of Independent Agencies | Argument Date: 12/8/25

Trump v. Slaughter | Case No. 25-332 | Oral Argument Date: 12/8/25 | Docket Link: Here Question Presented: Whether Congress can require the President to show cause before removing commissioners of independent agencies, or whether Article II grants the President absolute removal power over all execu…

Who the President Can Remove — and Why It Matters

Having laid out why independent agencies exist, Gwen and Marc turn to the harder question: what happens when a president decides he wants someone gone? This episode unpacks the constitutional and political fault lines around the president’s removal power — and why the ability to “fire the referee” …

Can President Trump Fire a Federal Trade Commissioner Without Cause?

In this episode, Thomas Berry of the Cato Institute and Jed Shugerman of the Boston University School of Law join the recap the oral arguments from Trump v. Slaughter and debate whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers. J…

SCOTUS Summer Series (Part 1): The End of Humphrey's Executor

In this special Supreme Court edition of Unwritten Law, NCLA President and Chief Legal Officer Mark Chenoweth and Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione are joined by NCLA Of Counsel Margot Cleveland to discuss the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Trump v. Slaughter. The Court's decision effe…

Trump Fires the Election Commission — Is This Constitutional?

Two constitutional battles dropped in the last 72 hours that go to the exact same question: Who runs the executive branch of the United States government? Is it the President that the American people elected — or is it unelected bureaucrats and Democrat governors who’ve decided they know better? S…

“Make Congress Great Again”? The Problem Isn’t the Supreme Court

In this episode of Unwritten Law, NCLA President and Chief Legal Officer Mark Chenoweth and Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione take on a provocative argument from The New Republic: Is the Supreme Court weakening Congress and creating a more powerful presidency? Mark and John give author Matt …

Executive Powers, Week 1

Welcome back to Queer PoliFaith! Today, we are looking at two cases about executive powers. The cases we are looking at today are [Seditious Traitor] v Slaughter and [Seditious Traitor] v Cook. Today's episode is different than other episodes because we don't spend nearly as much time analyzing th…