In 1935, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected President Franklin Roosevelt’s bid to fire a Federal Trade Commission member appointed by President Herbert Hoover, his immediate predecessor. Judge Brett Kavanaugh, now President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has signaled he would like to overturn the precedent set in the case, Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 31, 2018 19:30 UTC