At issue is whether the president has the authority to dismiss the heads of those agencies that are protected by Congress.

President Trump moved to fire Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from her position as a member of the Federal Trade Commission in March.

The Supreme Court on Monday in a 6-3 decision upheld President Donald Trump's termination of Federal Trade Commissioner ...

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, won't remain in office while the case is being litigated.

The ruling allows the president to remove the sole Democratic official on the Federal Trade Commission, an independent body ...

Supreme Court maintains Trump's termination of Democrat-appointed FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter while setting December ...

The hearing could lead to the justices overruling a landmark 90-year-old precedent upholding job protections put in place by ...

The Supreme Court will consider expanding President Donald Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning a nearly century-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members.

The FTC is currently composed of three Republicans. Normally, the controlling party would have a 3-2 majority instead of 3-0. Trump fired both Slaughter and Democrat Alvaro Bedoya, but Bedoya later ...

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court just cleared the way for Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, the last Democratic ...

Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter argued that the high court's emergency docket wasn’t the appropriate forum to ...

The Supreme Court cleared the way for Donald Trump to fire the sole Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, raising doubt ...