Supreme Court’s expansion of Trump’s firing power heads for new test

The Supreme Court’s decision expanding President Trump’s firing power is already headed for a test, as members of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) who were sacked by the president indicated Thursday they’ll keep fighting their terminations.

Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka are arguing the NCUA is just like the Federal Reserve, which the high court has signaled may still be able to keep its degree of independence from the White House even in the wake of the recent decision.

“The NCUA follows in that same lineage,” Harper and Otsuka’s lawyers wrote to an appeal court on Thursday.  

“The District Court found that Congress deliberately modeled the NCUA on the Federal Reserve, that both agencies perform the same core market-regulatory functions—chartering, supervision, and liquidity provision—and that the NCUA’s governing structure mirrors the Federal Reserve’s in form and design.”

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, overruled 91 years of precedent that enabled Congress to insulate certain expert agency leaders from being fired by the president at will. Chief Justice John Roberts and the other conservative justices ruled it violates the separation of powers, and........

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