The recent Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Slaughter expanded Trump’s power to fire leaders across the executive branch, but that probably doesn’t mean Bunch is next. Although the Court found that Trump could dismiss a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, the justices also wrote that the FTC falls “well within the heartland of executive power” and that they do not have “occasion today to define the bounds of what such power entails.” Anne Joseph O’Connell, a Stanford Law School professor who has studied boundary institutions, explained to me that the ruling applies only to those exercising executive power and, generally, reporting to the president. “You look at what the Smithsonian does, and it looks nothing like the Federal Trade Commission or other entities where President Trump has successfully fired people without court interference,” she said.