In 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that this protection against removal did not run afoul of the Constitution. Trump is determined to abolish the arrangement, and the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees are eager to enable him. Lower courts reinstated these individuals, since they believed that Humphrey’s Executor remained good law unless and until it was overturned by the Supreme Court. Conveniently, the Supreme Court has embraced this bogus theory just in time to let Trump purge any government official who might object to the MAGA agenda. It is increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Supreme Court is dismantling every guardrail that separates democracy from dictatorship.