years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Franklin Roosevelt’s firing of an FTC Com-missioner.  Humphey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602, 1935.   The Director of the FBI, like the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission must be independent of the president of the United States.

Director Comey, like Commissioner Humphrey, was appointed for a designated term and could only be fired for cause. The cause cited by the president was clearly subterfuge—the real reason was to stop Comey’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s con-nection with Russia. James Comey could have filed suit to challenge his termination, but apparently de-cided not to challenge President Trump’s actions, and to publish his side of the story in his book,...

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