A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., allowed a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission to keep her job, at least for now, as part of a lawsuit centered on President Donald Trump\u2019s authority to remove members of independent agencies without cause.<\/p>\n
A three-judge panel said Tuesday that a lower court\u2019s decision that Trump unlawfully fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter could remain in place and that the firing was squarely at odds with Supreme Court precedent. <\/p>\n
‘The government has no likelihood of success on appeal given controlling and directly on point Supreme Court precedent,’ the panel wrote in an order.<\/p>\n
Slaughter was abruptly fired after Trump took office, rehired when Judge Loren AliKhan ruled in her favor last month, and then re-fired days later when the appellate court briefly paused Ali Khan\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The three-judge panel, comprising two Obama appointees and one Trump appointee, lifted that pause on Tuesday, which allows Slaughter to return to work. The Trump administration can appeal the decision.<\/p>\n
Department of Justice attorneys had argued for the appellate court to grant the Trump administration a stay, pointing to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to do the same in a recent separate case involving other independent agencies.<\/p>\n
‘The court\u2019s reinstatement of a principal officer of the United States\u2014in defiance of recent Supreme Court precedent staying similar reinstatements in other cases\u2014works a grave harm to the separation of powers and the President\u2019s ability to exercise his authority under the Constitution,’ the attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., allowed a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission to keep her job, at least for now, as part of a lawsuit centered on President Donald Trump\u2019s authority to remove members of independent agencies without cause. A three-judge panel said Tuesday that a lower court\u2019s decision that Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web3anchor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}