Trump v. Slaughter · ¶233

Finally, and equally important, the reliance interests here are not limited to Congress. Ordinary Americans and regulated frms alike have organized their affairs understanding that some Government decisions will depend not on political favoritism or partisan advantage (or at least not only on those considerations), but on expertise, adherence to law, judgment, and the public good. See, e. g., Cook, 609 U. S., at 561 (opinion of Kavanaugh, J.) (arguing that uncertainty about agency independence would “risk destabilizing the U. S. economy”). America's economy works in large part due to the “stability” and predictability fostered by such expectations. Ibid. Today, by demanding unmediated, unmitigated Presidential control of agency decisionmaking, the majority upends all of that. The majority responds by announcing, in short, that it knows best and that its abrupt destruction of a century…

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