US EditionSupreme Court Chief Justice Rules Trump Can Fire Democratic FTC Commissioner While Lawsuit Proceeds
Chief Justice Roberts issued a temporary stay allowing Trump's removal of FTC Commissioner Slaughter, pending further legal review of presidential authority over independent agencies.
- The Supreme Court temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter while her lawsuit proceeds.
- Chief Justice John Roberts stated that Slaughter should remain terminated temporarily while the Supreme Court considers the case.
- The legal dispute questions the extent of presidential powers over independent agency terminations and could challenge a 90-year-old precedent.
- The administration argues the modern FTC's powers justify the president's ability to remove commissioners at will, contrasting historical rulings on the subject.
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Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC member for now
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump on Monday to keep a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission away from her post for now, temporarily pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner who the Republican president has sought to oust. The court’s action, known as an administrative stay, gives the justices additional time to consider Trump’s formal request to let him fire Rebecca Slaughter from the con…
Chief Justice Roberts Lets Trump Keep Fired Commissioner off FTC
Today, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling that ordered President Donald Trump to reinstate fired commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In March, the White House sent Slaughter, a President Joe Biden appointee, a letter stating that she had been removed from the commission because her “continued service on the FTC is… Source
Supreme Court permits Trump’s firing of FTC commissioner to remain in place
Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to fire, at least for now, a Democratic appointee to the Federal Trade Commission. A federal district judge in Washington, D.C., had ordered Trump to reinstate Rebecca Slaughter, who was originally nominated in 2018 by Trump to serve a seven-year term and then nominated to serve a second term by then-President Joe Biden. But Roberts granted the government’s request f…
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