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for your home with confidence download thumbtack today hey folks rachel here here's a recording of my latest Cafe Note, Rethinking Precedent.

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Dear listener, President Trump's dismissal of independent agency heads continues at a blistering pace.

He removed Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board in January shortly after taking office.

In February, he removed a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which is charged with protecting federal workers

against partisan interference, leaving that body without a quorum. Last month, he removed the two

Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission. Cases challenging these removals are making

their way through the lower courts. You might be wondering why Trump is confidently firing these people when existing

statutes not only protect them from removal, but also have the imprimatur of a venerable

Supreme Court ruling that has been on the books since 1935. Trump is betting that the Supreme

Court will ultimately overturn that precedent because the current

court's faithful adherence to cases on the books, known as Stari Decis, is comparable to Robert

F. Kennedy Jr.'s faithful adherence to science. The court's dismissal of a half-century of abortion

rights when it overruled Roe v. Wade received the most attention, but it is not the only example

of the court's willingness to reconsider its cases, no matter how longstanding or consequential.

The court upended the framework it established four decades ago for reviewing decisions by government

agencies, fundamentally altered labor law by overturning on First Amendment grounds,

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