Hour 1: The Supreme Court ruled that a president can fire leaders of independent regulatory agencies at will

This hour, Newell gives a reminder of why we celebrate Independence Day by reading the Declaration of Independence. Then, Kent Lassman, President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins the show to weigh in on the Supreme Court's 6–3 decision that held statutory restrictions on the President’s authority to remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners violate separation-of-powers principles, overruling Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), and restoring executive accountability over officers who exercise executive power.