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Supreme Court allows Trump to fire two US commission members pending case's outcome

( May 22, 2025, 22:04 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The US Supreme Court has issued a stay allowing the Trump administration to fire National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris pending the outcome of their case. The justices granted the stay because the "Government is likely to show that both the NLRB and MSPB exercise considerable executive power," allowing the president to fire commissioners based on the Supreme Court's 2003 ruling in Seila Law vs. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Wilcox and Harris contend that their firings, which were based on policy disagreements, violated precedent in Humphrey's Executor vs US in 1935. In that case, the court ruled unanimously that the president doesn't have “illimitable power of removal” for certain officials of quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial bodies, with the exception being for malfeasance or other for-cause reasons. Justice Elana Kagan wrote a dissent, in which she was joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor.See attached file....

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