The high court’s 1935 ruling in the Humphrey’s Executor case, which has protected federal agency independence, was called out for reversal in Project 2025.

This ruling … is based on straightforward application of settled Supreme Court precedent reiterated and reaffirmed in various ways for more than a century by all three branches of the federal government,

Trump called a judge’s ruling blocking political appointees from accessing the Treasury Department’s system a “disgrace.”

President Donald Trump’s purge at independent agencies is putting a target on a nearly 100-year-old Supreme Court precedent that protects certain officials from the political whims of the White House.

The Trump Administration has told the Judiciary Committee that they plan on asking the Supreme Court to overule their precedent protecting independent agencies.