Posted on 07/23/2025 1:55:41 PM PDT by CFW
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency set up by Congress to be independent of political pressures.
The justices, granting an emergency request filed by the Trump administration, blocked a Maryland-based federal judge’s ruling that reinstated Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric and Richard Trumka Jr., all of whom had been appointed by then-President Joe Biden.
Without the three members in place, the five-member commission would for now lack the necessary quorum to fulfill its obligation to protect consumers from defective products.
Under existing law, members can only be removed for “neglect of duty or malfeasance,” but Trump went ahead and fired members anyway, as he has done at other agencies with similar restrictions as part of his aggressive efforts to reshape the federal government.
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Winning.
“””The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission””””
That’s mighty white of them to allow the President to do the job he was elected to.
Absurd we have to wait for the courts for every move.
It was good of the SCOTUS to rule Trump could use the bathrooms of the White House if he needed to urinate. /S
Taking them longer to rule on allowing vicious gang members to have due process and full rights in all circumstances. Federal judges one by one making new rulings against ICE.
Daily.
Idiot journalists
Its not “allows”
Its “affirms”
The chief executive can reduce staffs. In many cases can eliminate agencies. Or greatly reduce them. If he can hire them he can fire them.
There was a bit of “as we previously told you!” in the court’s order.
“The application is squarely controlled by Trump v. Wilcox, 605 U. S. ___ (2025). Although our interim orders are not conclusive as to the merits, they inform how a court should exercise its equitable discretion in like cases. The stay we issued in Wilcox reflected “our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty.” “
Kagan dissented, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson (of course).
Yeah, the judges and justices let us little people beneath them to be granted some limited rights once in a while.
If we’re good little boys and girls. 🍭
Does NBC know more about the law than the Supreme Court?
Correct. Stops judicial branch from interfering with executive branch exercise of constitutional power would be more accurate.
Tired of winning yet?
Gosh, those news media types are big brained. /S
I’m not sure the media has figured this out yet... But Trump is the President. If he wants to fire somebody... He can fire them.
If he orders the military to bomb a pill factory when Monica Lewinsky is testifying against him... They bomb a pill factory... If he orders them to bomb Bagdad while he’s being impeached by congress... They bomb Bagdad. Clinton paved the way for Trump and all future Presidents... They are essentially king of the hill until they leave office. Period!
Get used to it... You didn’t complain when the Clinton’s wielded power... Why are you complaining now?
“Idiot journalists
It’s not “allows””
They do that deliberately. The media wants the masses to think the judiciary branch is superior to the Executive branch.
Wait, the masses don’t know there are three branches of government. Let me correct that. Media wants the masses to think that the President is inferior to the federal judges.
And also Congress
Only when the pres is not a democrat
If its a democrat the other 2 are inferior because pres then has a mandate
Well, Trump also has a mandate.
The courts will ‘allow’.
And of course this means all food manufacturers are going to dump arsenic and hemlock in to food products because some nameless bureaucrat loses their job in DC.
“”Well, Trump also has a mandate.””
Well, you can be assured obama had a man date, many of them probably.
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