The Supreme Court on Sept. 22 temporarily upheld President Donald Trump’s authority to fire Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member Rebecca Slaughter, and announced it will hear a challenge to a 90-year-old precedent limiting that authority.
Trump’s ousting of Slaughter is part of the president’s ongoing effort to remove some personnel from independent federal agencies whose appointees traditionally have been shielded from termination without cause.
The decision came in an unsigned order that says the justices will consider whether to overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935), which upheld a federal law preventing the president from removing FTC members without cause….
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Member for Now
