The article argues that recent executive overreach and politicization have severely undermined established norms of U.S. civil-military relations. To restore professional standards, the incoming Congress must actively exercise its oversight powers, moving beyond mere criticism to demanding transparency in defense policy and personnel decisions. Key reforms include enforcing meritocratic promotion processes, requiring documented justification for senior officer removals, and preventing the partisan use of the military. These actions are crucial for bolstering public trust and ensuring the military remains a nonpartisan instrument of civilian control.
Trump v. Slaughter Means that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reformers Should Adjust Priorities
English Summary
The Supreme Court's ruling in *Trump v. Slaughter*, which allows presidents to remove federal commissioners without cause, undermines the stability of bipartisan regulatory bodies like the FTC and suggests that commission structures are politically unreliable. Consequently, reformers seeking to overhaul the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) must abandon proposals for a commission structure and instead focus on statutory reforms. Policy efforts should prioritize limiting agency discretion by mandating robust cost-benefit analyses, funding the bureau through congressional appropriations, and clarifying regulatory authority. Ultimately, the ruling shifts the responsibility for curbing administrative overreach back to Congress, requiring detailed legislative statutes to ensure stable foundational rules.
中文摘要
最高法院在《川普訴斯勞特案》的裁決，允許總統無需理由解僱聯邦委員，這削弱了像聯邦貿易委員會（FTC）這類兩黨合作監管機構的穩定性，並暗示了委員會結構在政治上是不可靠的。因此，尋求改革消費者金融保護局（CFPB）的改革者必須放棄建立委員會結構的提案，轉而專注於法定修訂。政策努力應優先限制機構裁量權，方法是強制進行穩健的成本效益分析、透過國會撥款為該局提供資金，並釐清監管權限。最終，此裁決將遏制行政過度擴張的責任重新轉回國會，要求制定詳細的立法法規以確保穩定的基礎規則。
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