The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to remove Rebecca Slaughter as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, for now.

Slaughter's ouster will take effect while the justices consider whether to overturn decades-old court precedent that protects federal agency members from being fired by the president without sufficient cause.

The court's three liberal justices dissented.

Slaughter, who was appointed to a Democratic seat on the FTC during Trump's first term and renominated by former President Joe Biden , sued after Trump fired her from the commission in March.

Two lower federal courts rejected Trump's bid to allow Slaughter's firing while her lawsuit played out. The appeals court in D.C. found that to grant that request would violate the precedent set by th

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