The Supreme Court authorizes the dismissal by Trump of the FTC commissioner, for the moment

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to dismiss a member of the Federal Trade Commission without cause when the High Court continues to revisit a historic decision of the executive power on layoffs.

Chief judge John Roberts wrote in a brief prescription that the FTC commissioner appointed by Biden, Rebecca Slaughter, should remain terminated by his work, at least for next week, while the Supreme Court continues to consider his case.

The High Court ordinance responded to an emergency petition from the Trump administration intervenes while the massacre faced a cervical boost in the courts while dispute Trump’s decision to dismiss her at will.

The Court of Appeal prevents the dismissal of the FTC commissioner in the case of testing the president’s powers

The commissioners of the Federal Commerce Commission Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya spoke during a hearing of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 13, 2023. (Shuran Huang for the Washington Post via Getty Images)

A district court restored the slaughter, then by means of the call process, the massacre was re-scored, re-cirpé, then re-rive once again on Monday. After a court of appeal allowed her to go back to work on September 2, she did it immediately, even sharing on multiple social networks that she wrote in the days that followed her return.

Fox News Digital contacted the Slaughter legal team to comment.

Trump’s decision to dismiss the slaughter and the other commissioner appointed by the Democrats, Alvaro Bedoya, stood in tension with the FTC law, which indicates that the commissioners should only be dismissed from their seven -year mandates for cause, such as embezzlement.

President Donald Trump listens to a meeting with the crown prince of Bahrain Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the Oval Oval Board of the White House, Wednesday July 16, 2025, in Washington, DC (AP photo / Alex Brandon)

Their layoffs disagree with a 90 -year Supreme Court decision in the executor executor of Humphrey v. United States, which noted that the dismissal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt of an FTC commissioner was illegal.

Although the Supreme Court has enabled Trump’s layoffs on other independent agencies to temporarily continue while the prosecution takes place in the lower courts, the case of Slaughter has presented the most flagrant issue to date for the judges to know if they plan to overthrow the executor of Humphrey. Legal researchers having speculated that the current Supreme Court of Conservative has an appetite to reverse or narrow this decision.

FTC layoffs take projectors in Trump’s fight to erase the independence of agencies

The Supreme Court building in Washington, DC (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)

General solicitor John Sauer argued at the High Court that the FTC has been working on an important executive power and that his authority had developed since the 1930s, when the executor of Humphrey established for the first time that a dismissal of the FTC was illegal. The FTC now applies dozens of statutes, including the Sherman Act, and has the power to obtain prosecution to request injunctions and penalties, noted Sauer.

Click here to obtain the Fox News app

“Contrary to the suggestion of the lower courts, the executor of Humphrey does not mean that article II authorizes tenure protections for any agency called” Federal Trade Commission “, no matter how the executive accumulates the FTC,” said Sauer.