Supreme Court seems likely to side with Trump on FTC firing
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The court’s conservative majority seemed ready to overturn or strictly limit a landmark decision from 1935 in a case dealing with President Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission.
The Supreme Court debated limits on presidential power to fire FTC board members, signaling a potential shift in agency independence.
The Supreme Court is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.
Betz is asking the state Supreme Court to intervene and order his release, saying Allen is “illegally confined.” The center has filed a similar motion, known as a writ of mandamus, for another re-arrested man, Jose Rafael Arellano-Sanchez.
SCOTUS is considering whether to overturn a 90-year precedent limiting when presidents can fire board members of federal agencies.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on a Texas free speech case. This decision allows local officials to remove books deemed objectionable from public libraries.
Maybe, if the country is lucky, the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case of Trump v. Barbara because it wants to reiterate something that the Constitution, federal law, and its own previous rulings have already clearly said,