During this week’s oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time — warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.”

Great. It’s about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated.

Trump v. Slaughter revolves around the president’s ability to fire executive branch officials without cause at “independent” agencies.

For one thing, nowhere does the Constitution empower Congress to create “independent” anything.

The notion is a concoction of our worst former president, Woodrow Wilson, and it was codified nearly a century ago in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, when the high court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission was a quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, and quasi-judicial agency.

Google informs me that the FTC is an “independent agency” that is “technically within the executive branch structure,” which is not a real thing.

Moreover, even if it were one, the scope of “independent”........

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