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Trump’s quest for untrammeled power just got a big boost

Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts talk on the steps of the Supreme Court in June 2017 in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Just what President Donald Trump needed: more unchecked power. In the Supreme Court’s new Trump vs. Slaughter opinion, the court ruled that the president’s firing of the Federal Trade Commission’s Rebecca Slaughter was lawful — even though he did not follow Congress’s explicit requirement that FTC commissioners might only be dismissed “for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” In the court’s eyes, such requirements a...