The court case gives the judiciary time to consider Trump’s demands to fire Rebecca’s massacre.
Released on September 8, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily suspended a judicial order requiring Donald Trump to retain Democrats from her post for now, and reinstates the commissioner that the Republican president attempted to oust.
The court announced its decision on Monday.
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The court case, known as administrative stay, gives the judiciary extra time to consider Trump’s formal demands to fire Rebecca’s massacre from consumer protection and antitrust laws before his term expires.
The stay was issued by Judge John Roberts, who handles the emergency situation that arises in Washington, DC. Roberts asked Slaughter to submit his response by next Monday.
The Justice Department made a request Thursday after Washington-based US District Judge Lauren Alican stopped firing of the Trump massacre.
Alican determined in July that Trump’s attempts to remove the slaughter did not comply with federal law’s removal protection. Congress has implemented such tenure protections to give certain regulators some independence from presidential control.
The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals on September 2 upheld the judge’s decision in a 2-1 ruling, urging the Supreme Court to demand the administration.
The massacre said it intends to “watch this incident to the end.”
“It became even more clear to me that I desperately need the transparency and accountability that Congress intends to have in a bipartisan, independent body,” Slaughter said.
An FTC spokesman declined to comment.
The lower court held that, by statutory protection, FTC members would be prevented from being excluded in a case called Humphrey’s Enforcer v America, in light of the Supreme Court precedent of 1935 without complying with the US Constitution.
In that case, the court ruled that the president lacked the free authority to eliminate FTC commissioners, and that then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt had prevented the firing of FTC commissioners due to differences in policy.
In a recent Supreme Court filing, the Trump administration argued that “the modern FTC exercises much greater power than the 1935 FTC,” and therefore its members could be free to be fired by the president.
The court in a similar ruling in May said the constitution gives the president a wide latitude to fire officials who exercise executive power on his behalf.
The administration has repeatedly asked the judiciary to allow Trump’s policies imposed by lower courts this year. The Supreme Court, which has a conservative 6-3 majority, has sided with the administration in almost every case that has been called for review since Trump returned to US president in January.
Political tension
The massacre was one of two Democrat commissioners who Trump fired fire in March. Three of the five commissioners have not been able to come from the same party, and the FTC has been operating at the helm of three Republicans since April.
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson pursues conservative political goals at his agency. This includes holding workshops on gender-affirming healthcare risks among transgender youth, investigating whether employers adjust diversity, equity and inclusion goals, and telling Google that they will filter emails as shared fundraising emails.
The FTC also attempts to investigate a media watchdog accused of helping Elon Musk coordinate advertisers boycotts on his social media platform X, after clearing the $13.5 billion acquisition of Omnicom’s rival Interpublic IPG, after the company agreed not to pilot ad spending based on political factors.
Ferguson, who was appointed commissioner last year by former Democratic US President Joe Biden, often opposed the actions that then-FTC chairman Lina Kahn carried out a liberal political agenda aimed at checking corporate power.
