Trump v. Slaughter

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Trump v. Slaughter is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision regarding the constitutionality of statutory removal protections for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) previously upheld in Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) and whether a federal court may prevent removal from public office. Humphrey's Executor had generally held that commissioners of independent agencies within the executive branch of the government that served a "quasi-legislative" or "quasi-judicial" purpose could not be removed at will by the president. Early in his second term, Trump made several firings of independent agencies, including Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Democratic commissioner on the FTC, without any direct cause. The Supreme Court stayed lower court injunctions that had blocked the firing, and on June 29, 2026, issued a 6–3 holding along the Court's ideological lines that the president had the power to remove independent agency heads at will, overturning Humphrey's Executor. The only exception...

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