Gorsuch suggests Supreme Court's Trump ruling is opening move against administrative state

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurrence that the Supreme Court's Federal Trade Commission ruling provides a foundation for future legal challenges to the authority of independent federal agencies. The ruling in question addressed the FTC's power to pursue certain enforcement actions. Gorsuch's concurrence outlined arguments about the scope of agency authority under existing law. The decision does not itself dismantle any agencies or strip them of powers, but Gorsuch's writing indicates how the legal reasoning could be applied in future cases challenging agency actions.

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