Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts has allowed President Trump to remove of a member of the Federal Trade Commission for now.

The chief justice granted interim relief to the Trump administration Monday while the Supreme Court takes more time to consider its request to lift a lower court order requiring Rebecca Slaughter to be reinstated to her position at the commission.

Slaughter is one of several appointees at independent agencies that the president has removed. The Supreme Court has allowed Mr. Trump to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission while legal challenges to the removals move forward.

Mr. Trump appointed Slaughter to the FTC in 2018, and former President Joe Biden reappointed her

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