The court in effect created a Federal Reserve exception to its general view — long-favored by conservatives suspicious of what some term a federal bureaucratic deep state — that restrictions on the president’s power to fire members of federal agencies imposed by Congress were an unconstitutional restriction of executive authority.
“Our Constitution creates three branches, but only one president,” Roberts wrote in the Slaughter ruling.(The FTC case which will affect other federal agencies)
“Subordinates who exercise the president’s power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the president, and the president to the people,” wrote Roberts.