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The Seila Law Case: Liberty and Political Firing

David Driesen, writing in The Hill, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in the Seila Law case, over President Trump's firing of the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for political reasons. Driesen writes, "Astonishingly, Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion associates the president’s ability to use political firing to instill fear in government employees with the preservation of liberty."

Type: Op-Eds (July 1, 2020)
PDF: Seila Law case: Liberty and political firing
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Author(s): David Driesen
Tags: CFPB SCOTUS
Categories: Consumer Protection Consumer Protection

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