Woodrow Wilson’s legacy suffered a few blows recently. Not only did Princeton announce it will remove his name from their School of Public and International Affairs, but the Supreme Court rejected his vision of the federal government: antagonistic toward the Constitution’s separation of powers and desirous of administrative efficiency. In Seila Law, LLC. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Court decided that the structure of the CFPB, an independent agency created as part of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, was unconstitutional.
Administrative agencies are organizations within the executive branch that often engage in executive, legislative, and adjudicative functions because they conduct investigations, issue regulations, and hold hearings led by administrative law judges. Independent agencies are administrative agencies whose top officials are protected from removal without cause by the President.
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