Two fired Democrat-appointed independent agency heads have now asked the Supreme Court to consider their cases if the justices decide to hear a separate case regarding firing a Democrat-appointed FTC commissioner .

The Trump administration petitioned the high court earlier this month to allow it to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, after lower courts ruled she should be reinstated, marking the third time a challenge of an independent agency head’s firing has made its way to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in recent months. Chief Justice John Roberts granted an administrative stay allowing Slaughter to be fired while the justices consider whether to issue a firm stay and if they will hear the case before it has made its way through the lower courts.

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