Slaughter Seeks Expedited Supreme Court Reversal on Trump’s FTC Firing
The U.S. Supreme Court should grant a stay pending appeal and certiorari before judgment in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s firings at the FTC, Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter argued Monday (see 2509120059).
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“It is of imperative public importance that any doubts concerning the constitutionality of traditional independent agencies be resolved promptly,” she wrote, arguing that the high court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor "controls this case.”
She noted a district court “ruled that President Trump’s attempt to remove Respondent without cause violated federal law as determined by this Court. The district court and the court of appeals denied a stay pending appeal. This court should do the same. Where, as here, the district and circuit courts have both denied a stay, a party seeking relief in this Court bears an ‘especially heavy’ burden of persuasion.”