The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to remove members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday, the latest ruling from the court’s conservative bloc temporarily blessing Trump’s firing of independent agency officials.
Wednesday’s brief, unsigned order would allow the administration to re-fire three members of the commission appointed by President Joe Biden — Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric and Richard Trumka Jr. —while legal challenges to their original firings proceed.
The trio had won a court order in June finding that their firings violated a federal law protecting them from removal except for cause, and Wednesday’s order served as the latest court defeat for Congress’ power to restrict presidents from firing executive branch officials.
