Overview

• By a 6–3 vote, the Court granted an emergency stay that keeps Rebecca Kelly Slaughter off the FTC pending review, with Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissenting.
• The Court agreed to hear Trump v. Slaughter in December and directed briefing on whether the FTC’s removal limits are unconstitutional and whether Humphrey’s Executor should be overruled.
• The justices also asked the parties to address whether federal courts may prevent a president from removing an officer or order reinstatement.
• Lower courts in Washington, D.C., had ruled Slaughter’s firing unlawful and ordered her reinstated under the FTC Act’s for-cause standard.
• Former commissioner Alvaro Bedoya resigned and exited the suit, as the Court issued similar interim stays this year in disputes involving the NLRB, MSPB and CPSC.