Supreme Court sides with Trump in firing of FTC commissioner

Washington Times ^ | September 8, 2025 | Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan

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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to carry out his firing of a Federal Trade Commission board member — for now.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued a stay of a lower appeals court ruling that had said Mr. Trump overstepped his legal powers by firing Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC, and ordered her restored to office. The stay means Ms. Slaughter cannot regain her position yet and gives the high court more time to consider the case.

The ruling marks the fourth time the Supreme Court has backed Mr. Trump in his moves to fire members of independent agencies, though Ms. Slaughter’s case is likely the biggest of them all.

A 90-year-old high court ruling had found that a president — at the time Franklin Roosevelt — couldn’t fire an FTC member without good cause. Mr. Trump argues that precedent, known as Humphrey’s Executor, is wrong and needs to be overturned.

Lower courts ruled they are still bound by the precedent and decided in favor of Ms. Slaughter.

The Trump administration late last week asked the justices to intervene with an immediate halt to those rulings.

Chief Justice Roberts gave Ms. Slaughter a Sept. 15 deadline to respond to the case.

Previously, the high court has sided with Mr. Trump in preliminary rulings in his firing of officials at the National Labor Relations Board, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Merit Systems Protection Board.

The Trump Justice Department told the justices the FTC should be treated the same.

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This signals the Supreme Court is reversing the 90 year old precedent created by the FDR appointed Progressive Supreme Court. In Humphrey's Executor v. The United States, the court reversed a precedent from only nine years earlier.

Humphrey's Estate essentially held the congress could limit the power of the president by creating parts of the government which were not accountable to any elected official.

This was the "administrative state" Progressives wanted to "get around" the limitations on government power created by the Constitution.

[teeman8r]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

just like hitler.

firing all those people.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Supreme Court sides with Trump in firing of FTC commissioner

Supreme Court sides with the Constitution of the United States regarding the firing of FTC commissioner

There, fixed it