Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC’s Slaughter for now

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, July 19, 2024.

Kevin Mohatt | Reuters

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to remove Rebecca Slaughter as a member of the Federal Trade Commission while the justices consider her case.

The court, in a 6-3 decision to take up the case, said it will weigh Trump’s effort to overturn a 90-year-old precedent protecting members of independent federal agencies from being fired by the president without cause.

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