New York —

A federal appeals court ruled that Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Federal Trade Commission commissioner that President Donald Trump fired , can be temporarily reinstated in an order Tuesday.

Trump fired Slaughter and another Democratic FTC commissioner, Alvaro Bedoya, in March. While a lower district court ordered her reinstatement on July 21, the Justice Department received an emergency stay from the appeals court that temporarily blocked Slaughter from being reinstated.

On Tuesday, an appeals court ordered that the stay be dissolved in a 2-1 decision. It also denied the Trump administration’s request to speed up the appeals process.

“The government has no likelihood of success on appeal given controlling and directly on point Supreme Court precedent,” the court order read,

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