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SCOTUS Stays Injunction Against Removal of CPSC Commissioners

Further indication that independent agencies will not be "independent" much longer.

Reason

Supreme Court permits firings at consumer product safety agency - Roll Call

Supreme Court ruling impacts three members of the five-member consumer product agency who were appointed by former President Joe Biden.

Roll Call

Watch out, hallucinating Humphrey’s about in Whitehall

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UK government rollout of Humphrey AI tool raises fears about reliance on big tech

Critics question speed and scale of embedding AI into public sector when debate rages about use of copyrighted material

The Guardian - UK

President Trump Made History Last Week on the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket

The Supreme Court very strongly hinted that it will overrule, or greatly narrow, Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935).

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Supreme Court Stays Reinstatement of Fired NLRB and MSPB Members

"Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents."

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Justice Kagan Tells Us What She Really Thinks About President Trump

The Court "hand[s] the President the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever)."

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Supreme Court allows Trump firings from national labor boards - Roll Call

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to fire members of the national labor boards for federal employees and workers.

Roll Call

What is Labor proposing to do with superannuation, and why is it controversial?

Here’s why some are campaigning against plans to make people with more than $3m in super pay a bit more tax

The Guardian - AU

Humphrey to the rescue: UK Gov seeks to save millions by using AI tool to analyze input on thousands of consultations

The UK government’s new AI tool, Consult, analysed public consultation responses, claiming efficiency gains, though questions remain about accuracy, transparency, and long-term policy implications.

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UK government to launch AI tool to speed up public consultations

New system will analyse responses 1,000 times faster than a human and save millions, ministers claim

The Guardian - UK

Government-built AI tool used to cut admin work for human staff

An AI tool called Consult has been tested as a way of speeding up the analysis of public responses to consultations.

Evening Standard

"The Originalist Case Against Overturning Humphrey's Executor," by Lorianne Updike Schulzke

I was talking to Prof. Lorianne Updike Schulzke (who teaches at Northern Illinois and is visiting this semester at Yale),… The post "The Originalist Case Against Overturning Humphrey's Executor," by Lorianne Updike Schulzke appeared first on Reason.com.

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Trump Fires Democratic FTC Commissioners

The removals challenge Humphrey’s Executor, a Supreme Court precedent that protects independent agency officials from political firings.

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President Trump Targets Humphrey's Executor Directly

President Trump acts to remove two Democratic commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission. Litigation is likely.

Evening Standard

Sally Bretton to see Beyond Paradise and Not Going Out roles ‘collide’ in sketch

She will appear alongside Lee Mack and Kris Marshall in the skit.

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Dellinger v. Bessent Disappears Allowing Wilcox v. Trump to Train Sights on Humphrey's Executor

The Supreme Court will not have to weigh in on removal limitations at the Office of Special Counsel, but it could still have to consider those for the National Labor Relations Board.

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Trump can kill Fed independence. Why does the norm exist?

The Supreme Court could overturn precedent that protects Chair Jerome Powell from being fired.

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Trump Administration's Position on President's Power to Remove Commission Members

From the letter sent yesterday to Senator Richard Durbin (the ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee) by Acting… The post Trump Administration's Position on President's Power to Remove Commission Members appeared first on Reason.com.

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The Hughes Court Repudiated FDR In Humphrey's Executor, and the Roberts Court Will Repudiate Trump by Maintaining Humphrey's Executor

The separation of politics, not the separation of powers, will decide Wilcox v. Trump.

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Is Humphrey's Executor in the Crosshairs?

Firing members of "independent" agencies would seem to set up a direct challenge to a longstanding precedent.

TechRadar

‘Humphrey' government AI assistant looks to slash UK public sector red tape

Humphrey will help unlock new efficiencies across government departments, including the NHS, HMRC and DVLA.

The Guardian - UK

Yan F Zhang’s ‘fearsome and memorable’ Fleeting Marrow wins 4thWrite prize

The ‘remarkable’ short story is based on real-life deportations of Chinese seafarers in the UK after the second world war

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne lawyer referred to complaints body after AI generated made-up case citations in family court

Legal professional used software to generate a case citation list, but did not use documents that had undergone human verification

TechRadar

Latest Fable trailer confirms 2025 release window

The latest trailer for Fable has confirmed that the game will arrive in 2025.

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