{"id":3267,"date":"2026-06-29T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:40:27","slug":"supreme-court-backs-trumps-firing-of-ftc-member-overturns-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court backs Trump&#8217;s firing of FTC member, overturns precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday backed Donald Trump&#8217;s firing of a Democratic Federal Trade Commission member, expanding his powers \u200bover the government and overturning its 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will.<\/div>\n<div>Overruling \u200ca landmark 1935 decision in a case called Humphrey&#8217;s Executor v. United States, the justices, in a 6-3 decision, invalidated tenure protections for FTC members enacted by Congress more than a century ago. Trump dismissed Rebecca Slaughter over policy differences.<\/div>\n<div>The court signaled that its decision should not be seen as undermining the Federal Reserve&#8217;s independence, with the court describing the U.S. central bank as possessing a unique historical tradition.<\/div>\n<div>In another landmark ruling on Monday, the court refused to let \u200bTrump fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as it stood firm to preserve the central bank&#8217;s independence.<\/div>\n<div>In the FTC case, the justices reversed a lower court&#8217;s ruling that had blocked Trump&#8217;s \u200bdismissal last year of Rebecca Slaughter over policy differences. The lower court had cited the congressionally enacted tenure protections that were upheld by the Supreme \u2060Court&#8217;s Humphrey&#8217;s Executor ruling.<\/div>\n<div>A 1914 law passed by Congress permits a president to remove FTC commissioners only for cause &#8211; such as inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office &#8211; but not for policy \u200bdifferences. Similar protections cover officials at more than two dozen other independent agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board.<\/div>\n<div>Slaughter, appointed to her post by Democratic former President Joe Biden, \u200bwas one of two Democratic FTC commissioners who Trump moved to fire in March 2025 from the consumer protection and antitrust agency. Slaughter&#8217;s term was due to run until 2029.<\/div>\n<h2>TRUMP HAILS &#8216;BIG WIN&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div>On social media, Trump welcomed the ruling concerning Slaughter as a &#8220;BIG WIN.&#8221; Trump said the decision was &#8220;confirming Presidential Power in our Country to remove Executive Branch Officers and Agency Appointees, or Representatives, under Article II,&#8221; the constitutional provision laying out presidential powers.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This Decision was long sought by \u200bUnited States Presidents, dating all the way back to the 1930s,&#8221; Trump wrote, calling the decision &#8220;one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Democratic senators and antimonopoly groups voiced concern that \u200bTrump with the firings sought to eliminate the agency&#8217;s scrutiny of big corporations.<\/div>\n<div>Washington-based U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan in July 2025 blocked Trump&#8217;s firing of Slaughter, rejecting his administration&#8217;s argument that the tenure protections unlawfully encroached on \u200cpresidential power. \u2060The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit the following month in a 2-1 decision kept AliKhan&#8217;s ruling in place.<\/div>\n<div>But the Supreme Court in September allowed Trump&#8217;s ouster of Slaughter to go into effect &#8211; an action that drew dissents from its three liberal justices &#8211; while agreeing to hear arguments in the case.<\/div>\n<div>The lower courts ruled that the statutory protections shielding FTC members from being removed without cause complied with the Constitution in light of the Humphrey&#8217;s Executor precedent.<\/div>\n<div>The court in Humphrey&#8217;s Executor rebuffed Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt&#8217;s attempt to fire an FTC member over policy differences despite tenure protections given \u200bby Congress.<\/div>\n<div>In the 1935 decision, the court said \u200brestricting a president&#8217;s removal of commissioners was lawful \u2060because the FTC performed tasks more closely resembling legislative and judicial functions rather than those belonging squarely to the executive branch, headed by the president.<\/div>\n<div>The Trump administration argued that the modern FTC grew to wield substantial executive power in the decades since the Humphrey&#8217;s Executor decision, draining that ruling of \u200bits force.<\/div>\n<div>The arguments advanced by Justice Department lawyers representing Trump in the case embraced the &#8220;unitary executive&#8221; theory. This conservative legal doctrine sees the president \u200bas possessing sole authority over \u2060the executive branch, including the power to fire and replace heads of independent agencies at will, despite legal protections provided by Congress for these positions.<\/div>\n<div>The Constitution set up a separation of powers among the U.S. government&#8217;s coequal executive, legislative and judicial branches as part of a system of checks and balances.<\/div>\n<div>The Supreme Court in recent decades narrowed the reach of Humphrey&#8217;s Executor but stopped short of overturning it. In a 2020 ruling, \u2060it said \u200bthe Constitution&#8217;s Article II gives the president the general power to remove heads of agencies at will but that the \u200b1935 precedent had carved out an exception that allowed for-cause removal protections for certain multi-member, expert agencies.<\/div>\n<div>During arguments in the case in December, the liberal justices cautioned that giving the president power over federal agencies that regulate key aspects of American life \u200band business &#8211; from finance to air traffic safety to labor relations &#8211; would subvert the decision by Congress to entrust these issues to nonpartisan experts in independent agencies.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3265\">Fed\u2019s Lisa Cook made history even before battling Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3263\">US Supreme Court rejects Trump\u2019s unprecedented bid to fire Fed\u2019s Cook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3261\">US Supreme Court rebuffs Trump\u2019s appeal in E. 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