Jun 29, 2026 – RIP, Humphrey's Executor. But long live the Fed? … That sent the first signal that the justices seemed ready to finally jettison the Humphrey's Executor precedent that had allowed agencies … Chief Justice John Roberts authored the decision, offering a lengthy case for all of the errors that Humphrey's Executor introduced…

Dec 8, 2025 – Until today, the presumption from earlier Supreme Court rulings had been that the Humphrey's Executor precedent had reached the "go …  Today, however, oral arguments gave the distinct impression that the court may see Humphrey's Executor as only mostly dead. …  In other words, Humphrey's Executor seems more like "mostly dead" at the moment.…

Dec 5, 2025 – Executor is called Trump v. … She sued the Trump administration charging that, under Humphrey’s Executor, she could not be fired unless for cause and she should … SCOTUS has already signaled that it intends to overturn Humphrey's Executor.…

Oct 1, 2025 – That's the opposite of what the court has found in other Humphrey's Executor-type cases, where they gave Trump stays that allowed him … In fact, it indicates that the Supreme Court was serious in warning the Trump administration that their skepticism of the Humphrey's … Executor precedent explicitly did not extend to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.…

Sep 22, 2025 – commissioners had said they planned to challenge their removal in court, relying on a 1935 landmark Supreme Court case, Humphrey’s Executor … reshape the nation’s separation of powers.”All of this does seem to be heading for an overturning of a 90-year-old case known as Humphrey's … Executor case.…

Mar 28, 2025 – whether the president can do this or whether the congress can limit his power to fire people based on a 90-year-old decision called Humphrey's … Executor v. … It's very possible that Humphrey's Executor v.…

Sep 1, 2025 – While the New Deal-era case Humphrey's Executor v. … United States (1935) carved out a dubious exception for so-called independent agencies, constitutionalists have long understood Humphrey's…

Sep 8, 2025 – Humphrey's Executor ... not so much. … Given the other cases in which the court has all but reversed Humphrey's Executor as an affront to Article II power, it seems pretty…

May 22, 2025 – Executor v. … Executor as longstanding precedent.For 90 years, Humphrey’s Executor v. … Consumer Financial Protection Board, a 5-4 Court held that the Humphrey’s Executor rule does not apply where an agency exercising “…

May 23, 2025 – Did the Supreme Court just execute Humphrey's Executor? Justice Elena Kagan certainly thinks so. …  That's the basis of Kagan's dissent, which mentions Humphrey's Executor thirty times in eight pages. … Unfortunately for Kagan, her argument exposes the constitutional abrogation that Humphrey's Executor has always represented:For 90…

Jul 23, 2025 – Two months ago, the court issued a preliminary ruling in Trump v Wilcox that all but declared the Humphrey's Executor precedent …  That's a thinly veiled message about the fate of Humphrey's Executor. … Humphrey's Executor was created out of thin air by a court worried about its status in 1935 more than the Constitution:For 90 years…

Jul 24, 2025 – reaffirmed that the Constitution's vision of Article II responsibilities actually means something, and simultaneously putting Humphrey's … Executor on life support.…