Will SCOTUS allow Congress to protect non-partisan administration of the laws from plebiscitary presidentialism?

It is President’s Day, so naturally presidential power and legitimacy are on my mind. In particular, I am wondering how far the Roberts Court will go in vindicating what Noah Rosenblum and I call “plebiscitary presidentialism.” By “plebiscitary presidentialism,” I mean the view that presidential elections give the President a uniquely democratic legitimacy in the American constitutional system, because presidents alone have a national constituency. As Roberts put it

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