{"id":369,"date":"2025-09-03T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:50:53","slug":"appeals-court-orders-trump-targeted-ftc-director-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/appeals-court-orders-trump-targeted-ftc-director-reinstated\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court orders Trump-targeted FTC director reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"

An appeals court issued a ruling Tuesday seeking to reinstate a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner ousted<\/a> by President Trump without cause.<\/p>\n

In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who was appointed to the Democratic seat in 2018, was wrongfully removed from her post in March.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200b\u200bThe government is not likely to succeed on appeal because any ruling in its favor from this court would have to defy binding, on-point, and repeatedly preserved Supreme Court precedent,” the majority opinion<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cBucking such precedent is not within this court\u2019s job description,\u201d it continued. <\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan issued a similar rebuke to the Trump administration\u2019s<\/a> removal of Slaughter in July, ultimately deeming the measure illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants repeatedly want the FTC to be something it is not: a subservient agency subject to the whims of the President and wholly lacking in autonomy. But that is not how Congress structured it,\u2019 AliKhan wrote in her opinion<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUndermining that autonomy by allowing the President to remove Commissioners at will inflicts an exceptionally unique harm distinct from the mine run of wrongful termination cases,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Still, the government maintains the president is within his rights to dismiss whomever he may choose.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump acted lawfully when he removed Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC. Indeed, the Supreme Court has twice in the last few months confirmed the President\u2019s authority to remove the heads of executive agencies,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told The Hill. <\/p>\n

“We look forward to being vindicated for a third time\u2014and hopefully after this ruling, the lower courts will cease their defiance of Supreme Court orders,\u201d Desai added. <\/p>\n

Former President Biden nominated Slaughter for a second term in 2023. FTC commissioner tenures tend to last six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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