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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/trump-supreme-court-consumer- safety-board-00437414

President Donald Trump is again asking the Supreme Court to back his drive
to reshape the federal government by firing the leaders of executive
branch agencies.

An emergency appeal the Justice Department filed at the high court
Wednesday asks the justices to allow Trump to dismiss three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission appointed by his predecessor, President
Joe Biden.

Trump fired the three officials, Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric and
Richard Trumka Jr. in May. Federal law says members of the five-person commission can be removed “for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office
but for no other cause,” but Trump did not allege any misconduct that
triggered the firings. The watchdog agency sets safety standards for
thousands of consumer products used in Americans homes and schools.

Last month, a federal judge in Baltimore concluded that the firings were illegal and ordered the trio reinstated. On Tuesday, a panel of the 4th
Circuit Court of Appeals turned down the Trump administration’s request to proceed with the firings, prompting the new appeal to the Supreme Court.

In the high court appeal, Solicitor General John Sauer says actions by the three reinstated commissioners have demonstrated “hostility to the
President’s agenda” by seeking to reverse decisions made following their firing. Boyle, Hoehn-Saric and Trumka have “thrown the agency into chaos
and have put agency staff in the untenable position of deciding which Commissioners’ directives to follow,” Sauer wrote.

The main legal issue in the fight is the validity and scope of a 90-year-
old Supreme Court case known as Humphrey’s Executor that upheld Congress’
power to limit the president’s ability to remove officials at some federal agencies. The justices have narrowed the sweep of that precedent in recent years, relying on a legal theory of broad presidential power known as the “unitary executive,” although they have not formally overturned the 1935 decision.

In May, over the objection of all the liberal justices, the high court
granted Trump’s emergency request to fire two Biden-appointed members of federal panels that handle labor issues, the National Labor Relations
Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board.

The court’s majority said the panels exercise “considerable executive
power,” which supported Trump’s arguments that he could dismiss their
members without cause.

Sauer argued that the district court and the 4th Circuit essentially
defied the Supreme Court’s ruling in the labor board cases and he urged
the Supreme Court to end what he called a “court-ordered take-over of the CPSC.”

The administration’s request will go, at least initially, to Chief Justice
John Roberts, who oversees emergency matters arising from the 4th Circuit.

In a filing submitted shortly after Sauer’s request, lawyers for the board members Trump is trying to fire urged Roberts not to issue an
administrative stay putting them out of office again, saying doing so
“would disrupt the status quo.”


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