Will the Supreme Court empower Trump to sack the Fed’s boss?
A case that tests the president’s power to dismiss officials has implications for the central bank
OVER 14 seasons of “The Apprentice”, Donald Trump gleefully dispatched more than 200 contestants for botching a task or ruffling the wrong feather. In his second term as president, Mr Trump is discovering that axing federal-agency heads protected by “for-cause” removal statutes may require more than an imperious finger-point. In the latest of a series of emergency applications to the Supreme Court, he is asking the justices to grant him the unfettered power he once wielded on reality TV.
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