Supreme Court ruling gives Trump a chance to finally slay the Deep State monster

The Supreme Court’s decision Monday affirming Trump’s right to fire Federal Trade Commission members opens the door for him to finally dismantle the Deep State once and for all.

Writing for the 6-3 majority, Chief John Roberts concluded “that those who fall within the President’s ‘general administrative control’ must be removable by the President at will.” 

In so doing, the court struck down an almost century-old federal law that violated the separation of powers and prevented the president from firing members of the Federal Trade Commission, except for cause, such as for malfeasance. 

The precedent-setting case arose from Trump’s March 2025 decision to fire Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause.

Common sense — and the Constitution, for that matter — dictates that the president must have the freedom to hire and fire the bureaucrats and agencies who exercise executive power or otherwise act in his name.

Consequently, Trump will now be able to wield presidential control, as he should, over more than two dozen quasi-independent regulatory agencies.

The six justices got this case exactly right.

Yet Trump shouldn’t limit himself to the heads of such agencies.

This month, he issued an executive order stripping “for cause” protections for several thousand federal employees in “policy-influencing positions.” Good.

That move can give him the right to fire them at any time, a power the president should surely have.

Alas, too many of the other 2 million executive-branch employees enjoy far too much shielding from civil service and other laws and regulations.

Trump needs to keep up the pressure, fight those rules and ferret out his enemies — those refusing to implement his directives or actively undermining them, as many have.

Indeed, the Deep State — the “swamp” Trump vowed to drain even before taking office for his first term — has stood firm throughout both of the president’s terms, never mind that he was duly elected by voters expecting his administration to carry out his promises.

These resistors represent an unelected bureaucracy impervious to voters — a major roadblock to democratic rule and a clear violation of the Constitution’s intent.

Roberts and the five other justices in the majority just restored a modicum democracy and reminded Americans that elections have consequences.

Trump should see the ruling as an invitation to doing what he’s long promised  — and finally slay the Deep State monster.