Evening Sky 1-12-26

With Humphrey’s Executor back under serious scrutiny, a long-simmering constitutional fault line is finally cracking open.

A final ruling on the future of independent agencies is expected in the summer of 2026. If overturned, it would grant the President broad authority to fire heads of agencies like the FTC, FCC, and NLRB at will.

For more than a century, unelected administrators have exercised sweeping power insulated from presidential control, justified by legal fictions and judicial improvisation.

Paul Ingrassia’s argument cuts to the core of that distortion: the Constitution vests executive power in one place—the President—and nowhere else.

What’s at stake isn’t partisan advantage but structural legitimacy. If agencies can wield executive authority without accountability to the elected executive, then the separation of powers becomes theater, not law.

This debate is about restoring constitutional order, not reinventing it. With Humphrey’s Executor now on the chopping block, it is time to return Executive Authority where the Constitution actually places it: the President.

Good Night, Patriots!