{"id":7937,"date":"2025-09-04T14:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:16:01","slug":"supreme-court-sides-with-trump-on-firing-of-three-democrat-appointees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-on-firing-of-three-democrat-appointees\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Sides With Trump On Firing of Three Democrat Appointees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"430\"><strong data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"247\">The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that, for now, President Trump may remove President Biden\u2019s three appointees to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) without cause.<\/strong> This temporary decision, reported by NPR, weakens a nearly century-old precedent designed to preserve the independence of regulatory agencies by limiting presidential removal powers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"925\"><strong data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"539\">The Court\u2019s order referenced similarities to a prior case involving the National Labor Relations Board,<\/strong> emphasizing that the CPSC exercises executive power in a comparable way. Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted he would have preferred the Court take up the case in full this fall. The Court\u2019s three liberal justices\u2014Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2014dissented, criticizing the use of the emergency docket to shift power away from Congress and toward the Executive Branch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"1257\"><strong data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"999\">Justice Kagan warned that the ruling undermines Congress\u2019s authority<\/strong>\u00a0to structure independent agencies, writing that the Court acted \u201cwith little time, scant briefing, and no argument\u201d to override legislative protections. She cautioned that such actions could gradually transfer governing power from Congress to the president.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1603\"><strong data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1343\">This ruling challenges\u00a0<em data-start=\"1284\" data-end=\"1305\">Humphrey\u2019s Executor<\/em>, a landmark 1935 Supreme Court case<\/strong> that limited a president\u2019s authority to remove officials from independent agencies without cause. That decision arose when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to dismiss a Federal Trade Commission official for policy disagreements and was blocked by the Court.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1981\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1722\">Biden\u2019s commissioners, appointed in 2021, filed suit after Trump moved to remove them before their terms expired.<\/strong>\u00a0A federal judge initially reinstated them, but the Fourth Circuit declined further action. The Supreme Court has now sided with the Trump administration but declined to fast-track a full review, leaving the broader constitutional question unresolved for now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Supreme Court allows President Trump to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7VZnlPYPoT\">pic.twitter.com\/7VZnlPYPoT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martin Walsh (@martinwalsh__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinwalsh__\/status\/1949896932333101403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that, for now, President Trump may remove President Biden\u2019s three appointees to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) without cause. This temporary decision, reported by NPR, weakens a nearly century-old precedent designed to preserve the independence of regulatory agencies by limiting presidential removal powers. 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