Donald Trump attempted to evacuate her in office, and Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on Tuesday allowed Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to restore her role in the agency, which led to Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter trying to remove her from office on Tuesday.
In a 2-1 decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeal allowed a lower court to decide that the ruling favored the massacre took effect, rejecting the Trump administration’s request to delay the ruling during the appeal.
The court said FTC commissioners may not be fired by the president without reason, saying the law at this point has been nearly a century.
The two judges wrote in a majority opinion: “It is unlikely that the government will obtain an appeal because any ruling in the favor of this court must violate binding, on-site and repeatedly retain the Supreme Court’s precedent.”
Neomi Rao, a third judge, appointed by Trump, expressed objection, saying the federal court may not have the authority to “order the resumption of the president’s removal officer.”
Slaughter said Tuesday that she was excited by the ruling that Trump was “not in line with the law.”
“I am so eager to go back tomorrow to the work I was entrusted to do on behalf of the American people,” Slater said in an emailed statement.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The FTC enforces consumer protection and antitrust laws.
Trump appointed her first term in the FTC massacre in 2018. Joe Biden appointed her as acting chairman of the FTC in January 2021, and Biden appointed her as her second term in 2023, ending in September 2029.
A federal judge ruled in July that the Trump administration’s attempt to remove the massacre did not comply with the removal protections in federal law.
Under the FTC’s bipartisan structure, no more than three of the five commissioners are in the same party. Congress imposes restrictions on the employment and dismissal of commissioners to make the institution relevant to partisan politics.
Trump fired two Democratic commissioners on the FTC in March to put a major test on the independence of regulators.
Disputes over Trump’s sacking of the massacre and other commissioners, Alvaro Bedoya, may end up in the Supreme Court, which ruled 90 years ago that the FTC commissioner could be dismissed for just just reasons, such as ignoring his duties. Bedoya officially resigned in June to take another job, not part of the case.
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