A Democrat who was fired from the Federal Trade Commission by President Trump was reinstated to her position yesterday in an appeals court ruling.
Trump’s firing of Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter violated Supreme Court precedent, said yesterday’s ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A District Court judge ruled the same way in July, but Slaughter couldn’t get back to work because of an administrative stay that delayed the lower-court ruling from taking effect.
The administrative stay was dissolved in yesterday’s appeals court ruling, in which a three-judge panel also ruled 2–1 to deny the US government’s motion for a longer-term stay pending appeal. “The government has no likelihood of success on appeal given controlling and directly on point Supreme Court precedent,” the panel majority said.
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