> [if Biden had the authority to fire DeJoy] it might have meant Trump could have fired Jerome Powell.

Annoyingly/ironically, Trump seized the power to arbitrarily fire folks like DeJoy anyway, after the ruling in Trump v. Slaughter. [0] While the Federal Reserve was excepted from that, the exception doesn't seem to be based in law as much as the conservative SC justices trying to save Trump from hurting himself.

In other words, holding back didn't do much. In fact, if Biden had tried to fire DeJoy and been slapped down, maybe that would have made it harder for Trump to do the same. Even this Supreme Court might hesitate to completely reverse course on its own decision from a couple years back.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/29/trump-supreme-court...