Appeals court blocks Trump from firing FTC commissioner in case testing president’s removal powers

The Federal Court of Appeals is Washington, DCallowing a member appointed by the Federal Trade Commission to retain her work, at least for now, as part of the lawsuit, to involve President Donald Trump’s power to evacuate members of the independent body without reason.

A three-judge panel said Tuesday the lower court ruling was that Trump’s illegal dismissal of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter could remain in place and violate the firing with the Supreme Court’s precedent.

“There is no possibility that the government will succeed in appeal control and directly on appeals in the Supreme Court precedent,” the panel wrote in the order.

Trump was suddenly fired after taking office, and was fired when Justice Loren Alikhan ruled her support last month, then re-cultivated the appeals court briefly suspended Ali Khan’s ruling a few days later.

FTC shooting has attracted attention in Trump’s struggle to seize institutional independence

Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (left) chats with Alvaro Bedoya at a House Judiciary Committee hearing held at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. on July 13, 2023. (Shuran Huang via Getty Images for Washington Post)

Three judges panels, including two Obama The appointees and a Trump-appointee stopped Tuesday, which allowed the massacre to return to work. The Trump administration can appeal the decision.

Ministry of Justice Lawyers have argued that the appeals court granted the Trump administration a moratorium, pointing to the Supreme Court’s decision to do so in recent separate cases involving other independent agencies.

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“The court restored the chief official of the United States – in other cases where similar restoration of the Supreme Court jurisprudence persisted in other cases, causing serious harm to the separation of power and the president’s ability to exercise his powers under the Constitution,” the lawyer wrote.

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