US supreme court appears set to back Trump on FTC firing in major expansion of power
by Shrai Popat, Lucy Campbell and agencies from on (#720TG)
Conservative justices seem to signal support for president over move to fire Democrat Rebecca Slaughter in March
The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to back the Trump administration's argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members that for almost a century have been protected from presidential interference.
The court heard arguments concerning the legality of Donald Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member and appeared to be split down partisan lines in favor of a historic expansion of executive power, with the conservatives - including the sometimes swing vote of Justice Amy Coney Barrett - seeming to side with the administration.
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