How Trump's firings could upend a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling limiting his power

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Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya chat during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 13, 2023. President Trump fired both on March 18.

Already, lower courts have found President Trump's removal of Democratic members of independent agencies to be unlawful. The Trump administration has appealed.

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