Trump v. Slaughter · ¶241

Nor has this Court had trouble applying Humphrey’s over the course of the past century. It is true that, at times over those decades, disputes have arisen over the principles at play in Humphrey’s. That is to be expected for any legal doctrine. If anything, however, those disputes have been remarkably few and far between. As to multimember commissions, this Court has returned to the issue only once, making clear that “[t]he philosophy of Humphrey’s” plainly supported protections for members of the War Claims Commission. Wiener, 357 U. S., at 356. The majority claims that this paucity of cases marks a “retrea[t] from Humph rey’s.” Ante, at 22. The reality, however, is that the Court has seldom needed to address these issues because disputes have seldom arisen. That is so even though Congress all the while, and with minimal objection (and no vetoes) from over a dozen Presidents, has…

slip opinion, revised 7/07/26
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