Fired by the Trump Administration, several high-ranking federal government officials are now suing the government for unlawful termination. All of these cases cite a unanimous decision in the 1935 ...
In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that President Franklin Roosevelt acted illegally when he tried to fire an anti-New Deal commissioner from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC ...
William Galston credits “conservative legal scholars” with key “claims” regarding the president’s ability to fire executive-branch officials (“‘You’re Fired’? Not So Fast,” Politics & Ideas, Feb. 19).
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump may remove Democratic Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause while her legal challenge to the ...