Triumphant Trump brags about 'increased powers' after major SCOTUS ruling
Triumphant Trump brags about 'increased powers' after major SCOTUS ruling
Somaiyah Hafeez, The Mon, June 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM UTC
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Trump called it "such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers." (Image: Getty)
President Donald Trump applauded the Supreme Court's latest expansion of presidential powers, upholding the president's firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.
"BIG WIN just moments ago at the Supreme Court, in the Slaughter Case, confirming Presidential Power in our Country to remove Executive Branch Officers and Agency Appointees, or Representatives, under Article II," the president wrote on Truth Social. "This Decision was long sought by United States Presidents, dating all the way back to the 1930s."
Trump called it "such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers."
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The court ruled 6-3 that Trump had the right to fire Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic appointee overseeing an independent agency.
Trump fired Slaughter, whom he appointed to a Democratic seat on the commission in 2018, last year. Her term was set to end in 2029 after former President Biden renominated her for a new term.
Trump called it "such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers." (Image: Getty)
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Supreme Court's Monday ruling overturned the landmark 1935 decision Humphrey's Executor v. United States. This decision set the precedent that certain agencies within the executive branch can operate independently of the White House.
"To show the importance of the Slaughter Case, 90 years of precedent has been COMPLETELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY OVERRULED, greatly increasing Presidential Power at a time when it is most needed!" Trump wrote in another Truth Social post.
No president before Trump had sought to wrest control of the agencies that regulate wide swaths of American life, including nuclear energy, product safety and labor relations. But at arguments in Slaughter's case in December, the six conservatives, including three appointed by Trump, seemed more concerned about issuing a ruling that would endure than handing too much power to Trump.
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The court ruled 6-3 that Trump had the right to fire Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic appointee overseeing an independent agency. (Image: Getty)
Their rhetoric was reminiscent of the presidential immunity case in 2024 that allowed Trump to avoid prosecution for his efforts to undo his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The court is writing a decision "for the ages," Justice Neil Gorsuch said then.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent she summarized aloud in the courtroom, said the ruling could lead to "submission, instability, and even oppression."
"The president, to be sure, emerges with more power than ever before. That power was given to him by six justices on this court, not the people or the Constitution," Sotomayor said.
Source: “AOL Breaking”
