The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case challenging President Donald Trump’s firing of a Democrat-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission, taking up a case with wider implications for a president’s ability to remove independent agency heads.

The unsigned order allows Trump to fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter for now while also teeing up the justices to hear oral arguments sometime in December.

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The high court’s order asks the Trump administration and Slaughter to focus their arguments on two questions. The first question is “wh

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