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Trump asks Supreme Court to let him remove Democratic FTC member for now
Trump challenges a 90-year-old precedent restricting presidential removal of independent agency members, seeking Supreme Court approval to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause.
- On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court of the United States to let President Donald Trump fire Federal Trade Commission commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, seeking to pause her reinstatement while he appeals.
- The dispute rests on a 1935 precedent that presidents cannot remove independent board members without cause; Trump removed Slaughter in March without stating a reason, prompting courts to order her reinstatement.
- Procedurally, Slaughter has ping-ponged in and out of the job as courts ruled, while Alvaro Bedoya, former FTC commissioner, resigned in June leaving her seat unresolved; the FTC enforces consumer protection and antitrust laws with a typical three-to-two partisan split.
- The Justice Department contends the president may remove FTC commissioners without cause and White House spokesman Kush Desai said Trump acted lawfully removing Slaughter; this removal issue also involves Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook.
- In recent weeks, Slaughter's case is the second to challenge Trump's legal 'cause' for removing federal regulators, questioning the framework for independent federal agencies like the FTC.
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Justice Department supports Trump's effort to fire FTC commissioner
The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to allow President Donald Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission without cause, a challenge to a 90-year-old precedent that limits political influence.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Uphold His Firing of FTC Commissioner
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Sept. 4 to let him fire Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member Rebecca Slaughter after a federal appeals court reinstated her two days before. Slaughter, formerly chief counsel to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), was first appointed by Trump in 2018 to a seat reserved for Democrats on the panel, then reappointed in 2023 by President Joe Biden. Trump fired Slaughter earlier this year. In a letter expla…
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow firing of FTC member and hear full case
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to fire Democrat-appointed Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, while also requesting that the high court hear the full case immediately rather than allow it to move through lower courts. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to halt a Tuesday ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit allowing the reinstatement of Slaughter pending app…
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let him fire member of Federal Trade Commission
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court Thursday to let the president fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a string of emergency petitions over the president’s removal power.
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