Supreme Court ruling gives Trump a chance to finally slay the Deep State monster

The Supreme Court’s decision Monday affirming Trump’s right to fire Federal Trade Commission members opens the door for him to finally dismantle the Deep State once and for all.Writing for the 6-3 majority, Chief John Roberts concluded “that those who fall within the President’s ‘general administrative control’ must be removable by the President at will.” In so doing, the court struck down an almost century-old federal law that violated the separation of powers and prevented the president from firing members of the Federal Trade Commission, except for cause, such as for malfeasance. The precedent-setting case arose from Trump’s March 2025 decision to fire Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause.Common sense — and the Constitution, for that matter — dictates that the president must have the freedom to hire and fire the bureaucrats and agencies who exercise executive power or otherwise act in his name.Consequently, Trump will now be able to wield presidential control, as he should, over more than two dozen quasi-independent regulatory agencies.The six justices got this case exactly right.Yet Trump shouldn’t limit himself to the heads of such agencies.

This month, he issued an executive order stripping “for cause” protections for several thousand federal employees in “policy-influencing positions.” Good.That move can give him the right to fire them at any time, a power the president should surely have.Alas, too many of the other 2 million executive-branch employees enjoy far too much shielding from civil service and other laws and regulations.Trump needs to keep up the pressure, fight those rules and ferret out his enemies — those refusing to implement his directives or actively undermining them, as many have.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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