The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to revisit a 90-year precedent on removing independent regulators, as President Donald Trump’s firing of FTC commissioner moves forward.
Sept. 22 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to revisit a 90-year precedent, preventing presidents from removing independent regulators without just cause. The high court, which is scheduled to hear the case in December, will allow President Donald Trump’s firing of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to move forward.
The case centers on Trump’s attempt to remove Slaughter, who has been with the FTC since 2018. While a decision is not expected until next summer, the court order allows Trump to fire Slaughter despite dissents from the court’s liberal judges.
„Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars“, wrote Justice Elena Kagan, who was also joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
