President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow him to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission in an emergency appeal that could further erode the autonomy of independent federal agencies.

At the center of the latest legal battle over Trump’s ability to control those agencies is Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who has served on the Federal Trade Commission since 2018. Trump fired Slaughter in March, despite a federal law that permits the dismissal of FTC commissioners only for cause.

A divided federal appeals court earlier this week ordered Slaughter to be reinstated while the litigation over her firing plays out. Trump has repeatedly won similar cases at the Supreme Court in recent months – a point the Department of Justice was quick to note on Thur

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