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Under that law, the CFPB director served a five-year term and could only be fired for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” In that case, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that gave the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a degree of independence from the president. The unitary executive had a previous test in front of the Supreme Court in Seila Law v. The Collins plaintiffs made an entirely plausible argument under those decisions that could have had devastating real-world consequences - in this case, an earthquake for the housing sector - but the Court chose to avoid that path. Sign up to receive our newsletter each Friday.Īlito’s decision does not abandon the unitary executive, but it steps back from some of the more alarming aspects of the Court’s previous decisions applying this and similar doctrines. Vox’s German Lopez is here to guide you through the Biden administration’s burst of policymaking. The vote in Collins was a bit messy, with different justices joining different parts of Alito’s opinion, but every member of the Court except for Justice Neil Gorsuch agreed that the plaintiffs in Collins asked for far too much. Although Justice Samuel Alito enthusiastically supported the unitary executive doctrine in the past, he wrote a majority opinion in Collins that walks back some of that doctrine’s most frightful implications. Yellen, that threatened to throw the entire US housing market into turmoil, unless a majority of the Court was willing to take a couple steps back away from its almost religious devotion to the unitary executive doctrine.


This obsession birthed a $124 billion Supreme Court case, Collins v. The enactment of the bill was an effort by state legislators to provide more protections for the gig economy, including contract workers for operators such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Postmates, according to the news outlet.One of the conservative legal movement’s oddest obsessions involves something known as the “ unitary executive,” the idea that all federal officers who execute federal law must be accountable to the president of the United States, which includes the president’s right to fire many senior government officials at will. The new bill could affect the employment status of reportedly more than 1 million workers in California. The company provided a 30-day notice to the affected workers and is posting about 20 full- and part-time jobs with some posted already, a source told the news outlet. In 2020, we will move California’s team blogs from our established system with hundreds of contractors to a new one run by a team of new SB Nation employees.”Ī separate memo was also sent to SB Nation contractors, saying that they could apply for full- or part-time positions within the company in California, and could continue contributing to the site but would not be paid for their efforts, CNBC reported. John Ness, director of team brands at SB Nation, wrote in a blog post about the layoffs, “This is a bittersweet note of thanks to our California independent contractors. The layoffs at Vox Media will also reportedly affect its Curbed and Eater news sites. The new law will require employers to reclassify their contract workers as full-time employees and offer them benefits such as minimum wage and health care.Īs the California law applies to Vox Media, contract workers are prohibited from submitting more than 35 pieces a year. Gavin Newsome signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) into law in September. The job cuts primarily affect California freelancers that are contracted by SB Nation, a sports website under Vox Media.Ĭalifornia Gov. Vox Media is reportedly letting hundreds of freelance writers go as a new California law gets ushered in, affecting the classification of contract workers.
