Probably not, but it is a fairly narrow exception to the much broader precedent which is Trump versus Slaughter, which overrules Humphrey's executor and upholds the President's authority to fire executive branch employees at his discretion. That's going to obviously have big impact moving forward right over the next couple of years for the President as well. Would you agree? Yeah. No, no. It's a big deal. And it's going to mean as a practical matter, going forward, I think there's a real possibility, in fact a likelihood that these so called independent commissions will not have bipartisan commissions. (09:46–09:52)
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