Supreme Court Set to Consider Trump’s Power to Remove High-Level Bureaucrats

The case could lead the justices to overturn a 90-year-old precedent on separation of powers.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Nov. 10, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

For months, federal judges have been ordering President Donald Trump to reinstate heads of agencies despite his interest in removing them.

Their decisions have been based on a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent, known as Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, that says Congress can limit the reasons for which presidents remove officials like members of labor boards.