Several of President Donald Trump 's firings of independent agency heads have made their way through the Supreme Court 's emergency docket, but Tuesday's ruling in a federal appeals court likely moves the justices closer to overturning a 90-year precedent on the issue.

A panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 Tuesday evening to deny the Trump administration's effort to fire Democrat-appointed Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter pending appeal. The Supreme Court has already ruled in two separate orders on its emergency docket to allow the administration to fire independent agency heads while legal battles continue, but the high court's long-standing precedent on the matter, stemming from its 1935 ruling in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States ,

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