What happened

The Supreme Court yesterday allowed President Donald Trump ’s removal of the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to consider overturning a 90-year-old ruling limiting when a president can dismiss the members of nominally independent boards. The court’s three liberals dissented from the unsigned, unexplained emergency docket decision .

Who said what

After Trump fired the five-member FTC ’s two Democratic commissioners, Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, in March, Slaughter sued while Bedoya eventually resigned. Slaughter pointed to the unanimous 1935 ruling Humphrey’s Executor, which holds that presidents can only fire commissioners for misconduct or neglect of duty. But the current court’s conservative majority has “all but overturned that

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