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Supreme Court allows Trump to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission
UNITED STATES, JUL 22 – The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling temporarily blocks a lower court order and affirms presidential authority to remove independent agency members without cause, challenging long-standing protections.
- The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who had been reinstated by a federal judge after being fired by President Trump.
- The commission helps protect consumers from dangerous products by issuing recalls, suing errant companies and more.
- The fight over the president's power to fire could prompt the court to consider overturning a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey's Executor, which held that presidents cannot fire independent board members without cause.
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Blumenthal decries White House plan to eliminate a national product safety watchdog
(Carolyn Kaster / AP)A White House plan to eliminate a national product safety watchdog would be harmful to American families and businesses, according to U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).A proposed budget from the White House calls for eliminating the Consumer Product Safety Commission and for the Department of Health and Human Services to absorb its core functions.The move would dilute the commission’s work and allow dangerous and unsafe pr…
SCOTUS Allows Trump To Boot Dems Off Consumer Product Safety Board
Here we go again with the emergency docket scam. Why does Trump want to kill people, and why are Republicans on SCOTUS helping him do it? Via The Washington Post: A divided Supreme Court Wednesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to remove the Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, allowing the administration to continue to seize control of the federal bureaucracy while litigation continues in the lower courts. T…
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UpstractJustice Kagan Doth Protest Too Much About The Emergency Docket
In Trump v. Moyle, the Court granted a stay, and allowed President Trump to remove members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. This order seems to follow from Trump v. Wilcox. The per curiam order states, "the case does not otherwise differ from Wilcox in any pertinent respect." There has been some debate over the years on whether emergency docket rulings are precedential. I think that debate has been settled. The vote here was (likely) 6…
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