Posted on 09/22/2025 4:23:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The high court will also hear arguments about overturning a 90-year-old precedent that allowed Congress to create independent agencies.
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to fire the sole remaining Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, the latest victory in his aggressive push to exert greater control over the federal bureaucracy.
The justices overturned a lower-court injunction that reinstated Rebecca Slaughter to her position with the agency that oversees antitrust and consumer protection issues while litigation over her removal works its way through the courts.
The ruling — while provisional — is significant because the high court also said it will hear arguments in December on overturning a 90-year-old precedent that allowed Congress to set up independent, nonpartisan agencies insulated from political interference by the president if they do not wield executive power.
As is customary in cases decided on the emergency docket, the justices did not offer reasons for their ruling and it was unsigned, so the vote count was unclear.
The decision came over the objections of the court’s three liberal justices, who have regularly argued against such moves in a series of rulings by the high court allowing the president to fire the heads of several independent agencies.
“The majority, stay order by stay order, has handed full control of all those agencies to the President,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent. “He may now remove — so says the majority, though Congress said differently — any member he wishes, for any reason or no reason at all. And he may thereby extinguish the agencies’ bipartisanship and independence.”
In 1935, the justices ruled that President Franklin D. Roosevelt could not fire a board member of the FTC, William Humphrey, simply because he opposed the president’s New Deal policies. Congress had...
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Tells you everything you need to know.
Wait what? A chief executive gets to decide who works in the executive branch? Thought judges were supposed to make all the executive decisions. /s
As of September 22, 2025, Biden/Harris stooge-judge Loren L. AliKhan’s ruling that President Trump illegally fired Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member Rebecca Slaughter has been put on hold by the Supreme Court.
“””court ALLOWS Trump”””” *******DRINK********
Trump is the head of the Executive Branch, and we, the people, elected him to do it.
Another Biden/Harris baghead Musloid stooge [Loren AliKhan] over-ruled.
It is to laugh.
And he may thereby extinguish the agencies’ bipartisanship and independence.”
Thus, one ideology, Progressivism, overcame the limitations on government power created by the Constitution.
ABOUT FREAKING TIME
Those liberal broads would do better to perform as the witches in McBeth.
This bodes well for kicking Cook off the fed board
““””court ALLOWS Trump”””” *******DRINK********”
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Congress could have created a court to handle such matters if it wanted independence from the executive branch. It chose not to do so.
Trump should use Kagans decent to fire Powell 🤣
There is nothing that makes the FED any different so if they are consistent she’s gone. Plus, with Cook there was cause so they can lean on that to keep the idea that Trump can’t fire the chairman of the fed alive. That being said the decent says that Trump can fire anyone for any reason or no reason.
Excellent!
These headlines are crap. The SC is not “allowing” the President to fire executive branch employees. The SC is preventing judges from illegitimately interfering with executive decisions.
WINNING!!!
If it’s part of the executive, that’s one thing. If it’s “independent” -— well, independent of what? The executive? Then what is it, some 4th branch?
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