The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to fire Democrat-appointed Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, while also requesting that the high court hear the full case immediately rather than allow it to move through lower courts.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to halt a Tuesday ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit allowing the reinstatement of Slaughter pending appeal, pointing to two previous Supreme Court rulings on the emergency docket allowing the firing of independent agency heads in recent months.

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