Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner Highlight

The firings are a direct challenge to a 1935 Supreme Court precedent called Humphrey's Executor v. United States that upheld limits on the president’s ability to fire FTC commissioners without cause, a restriction Congress imposed to protect the agency from political pressure.

Under the 1914 law that set up the agency, members can only be removed for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”