Trump Agency Firing Cases March Toward Receptive Supreme Court

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented firings of agency board members spawned legal challenges on a collision course with a US Supreme Court that’s signaled its willingness to further enhance the president’s removal power.

The strongest indicators of the high court’s receptiveness to Trump’s assertions of authority reside in a trilogy of decisions incrementally weakening agency leadership’s job protections, as well as its 2024 decision stemming from one of Trump’s federal indictments that embraced a broad view of presidential immunity, legal scholars said.

The Supreme Court’s next case on presidential removal powers could be the death knell for statutory shields against ...