President Trump can remove Rebecca Slaughter from her role as Federal Trade Commission commissioner while the Supreme Court considers executive authority over independent agencies, the justices ruled in a majority decision on Monday.

Why it matters: The 6-3 ruling suggests the Supreme Court is poised to overturn a 90-year-old precedent that protects the heads of independent agencies from being fired by presidents when the justices hear arguments in the case in December.

State of play: The ruling on the court's emergency docket did not outline the conservative majority's reasoning for its decision, which the three liberal justices dissented. • The justices will hear oral arguments in December on the precedent, known as Humphrey's Executor, which concerns a 1935 Supreme Court ruling that

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