Democrat Shana Broussard formally became the FEC's new chair on Tuesday, taking the reins of a quorum-less agency.

At a few federal agencies, officials have managed to maintain their positions in defiance of Trump’s efforts to remove them.

Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) (emphasizing that ...