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  "description": "The decision sets the stage for a fight over precedent.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-09-25T14:02:27.000Z",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2025 — _The Supreme Court has officially allowed_ President Donald Trump to fire the last remaining Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission in case involving the president’s authority to staff independent agencies.\n\nTrump dismissed FTC commissioner **Rebecca Kelly Slaughter** in _March_, and she vowed to challenge the action in court. On Monday, the justices granted Trump’s request to stay a lower court ruling, allowing him to immediately remove the commissioner.\n\nThis raised the possibility of overturning __Humphrey’s Executor__, the foundational precedent that upheld Congress’s ability to protect independent agency officials from being fired without cause. The Court said it will hear arguments in December on whether to scrap the precedent restricting presidents from firing independent regulators without cause.\n\nJustice **Elena Kagan** , joined by Justices **Sonia Sotomayor** and **Ketanji Brown Jackson** , issued a sharp dissent. She warned that the Court has repeatedly used its emergency docket this year to give the president unchecked removal power.\n\nKagan emphasized that Congress explicitly bars such firings — the FTC Act allows removal only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” She argued that, the majority is handing “full control of all those agencies to the President,” threatening their independence.",
  "title": "Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Democrat",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T05:45:44.069Z"
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