# New executive order seizes complete control of all regulatory agencies, interpretation of law

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**Created:** [February 19, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-executive-order-seizes-complete-control-of-all-regulatory-agencies-interpretation-of-law/1014508 "2025-02-19T15:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-executive-order-seizes-complete-control-of-all-regulatory-agencies-interpretation-of-law/1014508/41 "2025-02-23T22:47:59Z")

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For those keeping tabs on the status of the Humphrey’s Executor precedent, it stands for another week at least. The Supreme Court has once again dodged an opportunity to say that the president can fire anyone in the administration at will. The court declined to lift a stay that is currently preventing Trump from firing Hampton Dellinger, a special counsel who as such should be fired only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.”

> **[Supreme Court punts on order that blocked Trump's firing of special counsel](https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5302492/supreme-court-special-counsel-hampton-dellinger)**
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> Per Congress' directive, the occupant of the position can only be fired for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office."

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-executive-order-seizes-complete-control-of-all-regulatory-agencies-interpretation-of-law/1014508/42 "2025-02-24T03:33:57Z")

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> [@bump](#):
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> The way it was explained in another article I read was that this is actually more of their war on Federal bureaucracies setting policy without any sort of Congressional or elected oversight. Sort of a counterpart to the Chevron decision.

I don’t recall electing Pam Bondi.

By the stated logic - which, one should note, is based in Democratic theory not Republican - you end up with a president and no one else in the whole executive branch.

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