The Supreme Court backed Donald President Trump in a case over his firing of Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.
In a brief order, the justices said Trump may remove Slaughter while the case is pending.
Arguments are scheduled for December, and the stay allowing her removal will remain until the court issues a ruling.
The case challenges whether statutory protections against removing FTC commissioners violate the separation of powers.
It also questions whether the court’s 1935 decision upholding such protections should be overturned.
Lower courts have blocked removals in similar cases involving Trump’s dismissal of Democratic appointees.
The high court’s left wing dissented.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson opposed the order.
Kagan wrote the order gives the president “full control” over independent agencies intended to be insulated from political influence, per the Conservative Brief.
“He may now remove — so says the majority, though Congress said differently — any member he wishes, for any reason or no reason at all. And he may thereby extinguish the agencies’ bipartisanship and independence,” Kagan wrote.
Attorney General Pam Bondi praised the Supreme Court decision. She called it a “significant” win that reinforces presidential authority.
“This helps affirm