Supreme Court rules consumer regulator structure unconstitutional

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10. Ginsburg was right about the arguments being academic

This ruling doesn't destroy the agency, it simply puts it under either Congressional or Executive oversight.

As it was set up, the effort to make it impervious to partisan politics actually created a department with essentially no oversight by any of the three branches of constitutional government. Even the Pentagon lacks that kind of stature. It's the structure, not the mission, that is at issue here and it's the structure that will need to be changed.

So while it looks like a defeat from the headline, it isn't. The Board didn't just get undone by a stroke of quill pen, it means that someone, quite probably the Executive, will be in charge of hiring and firing.