( June 29, 2026, 1:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a pair of opinions issued by a divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 concerning two federal officials, the high court majority in the first overruled Humphrey’s Executor v. United States and opined that the president has the power to fire a Federal Trade Commission commissioner at will; in the second opinion, a high court majority declined President Donald J. Trump’s application to stay an injunction keeping a member of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors in her post while her case challenging her purported firing continues as the majority opined that the Federal Reserve is an independent entity....