{"id":350,"date":"2025-09-04T20:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:50:51","slug":"trump-asks-supreme-court-to-permit-ftc-commissioner-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-permit-ftc-commissioner-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks Supreme Court to permit FTC commissioner firing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump took his fight<\/a> to fire Federal Trade Commission (FTC) leaders without cause to the Supreme Court on Thursday, a move that could prompt the justices to overrule a key precedent blessing removal protections at the agency for decades.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s bid to fire<\/a> Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat appointed to the FTC in 2018, comes as part of the administration’s broader effort to eviscerate restrictions that provide certain agencies with a degree of independence from the White House. <\/p>\n

Lower courts reinstated<\/a> Slaughter under the Supreme Court\u2019s 1935 decision, Humphrey\u2019s Executor v. U.S., that has long served as legal justification for the removal protections. <\/p>\n

The precedent\u2019s future, however, has increasingly come into question<\/a> under recent decisions from the court\u2019s conservative majority. Adding to the doubts, the justices have sided<\/a> with Trump twice already<\/a> in his firings at other independent agencies.<\/p>\n

Unlike those cases, the FTC was the very agency at issue in Humphrey’s Executor. So on Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 <\/a>that despite the recent developments, Trump still couldn’t fire Slaughter at will because the precedent remains on the books. <\/p>\n

The administration now wants the Supreme Court to issue an emergency order that immediately permits the firing and also take up the case in full during their upcoming term to settle the issue. <\/p>\n

Solicitor General D. John Sauer asserted that the justices don\u2019t necessarily have to overrule the 90-year-old precedent and can instead strike down the FTC removal protections in response to the agency\u2019s expanded authority over the ensuing decades. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe modern FTC exercises far more substantial powers than the 1935 FTC,\u201d Sauer wrote in court filings. <\/p>\n

If the justices disagree, Sauer invited the court to overrule the precedent after full briefing and argument. <\/p>\n

“The district court and the court of appeals both soundly rejected the Trump Administration\u2019s extreme position that this President \u2014 unlike every other President since 1935 \u2014 can ignore the plain language of the FTC Act and should be allowed ‘to defy binding, on-point, and repeatedly preserved Supreme Court precedent,'”\u00a0Amit Agarwal, special counsel at Protect Democracy, which represents Slaughter, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Both courts got it right: Now more than ever, we need the judiciary to enforce \u2014 not cast aside \u2014 longstanding constraints on the exercise of executive power,” Agarwal continued.<\/p>\n

Updated at 8:34 p.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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