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BumRushDaShow

(157,375 posts) Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:11 PM Jul 23

Supreme Court hands Trump a win on Consumer Product Safety Commission firings

Source: USA Today

Updated July 23, 2025, 5:06 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump can fire three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission for now the Supreme Court said on July 23 in the latest decision boosting the ability of the president to control independent agencies. The ruling was made over the objections of the court’s three liberal justices.

“Once again, this Court uses its emergency docket to destroy the independence of an independent agency, as established by Congress,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote. "By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."

The five-member regulatory commission, created by Congress in 1972, aims to keep people from being injured or killed by defective or harmful products. Commissioners are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate in staggered seven-year terms to protect them from political or industry pressure and to protect the agency from abrupt changes in composition. By law, commissioners can be removed only for “neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.”

But, in May, Trump fired without cause the three members appointed by President Joe Biden: Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric and Richard Trumka Jr. A federal judge in Maryland ordered the commissioners reinstated, saying the threat to public safety from removing them outweighed any hardship the administration might suffer from keeping them on while the firings are being challenged.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/23/supreme-court-trump-consumer-product-safety-commission/85196601007/

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Supreme Court hands Trump a win on Consumer Product Safety Commission firings (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jul 23 OP

No surprise. sinkingfeeling Jul 23 #1

Nope, not at all popsdenver Jul 23 #13

The Supreme Court hates the American people. Irish_Dem Jul 23 #2

Gonna be a long 3 and half years. bluestarone Jul 23 #3

People have died because of the judicial malfeasance from these 6 fascist-nazi pigs! wolfie001 Jul 23 #4

Just can't have nice things............... Lovie777 Jul 23 #5

Another successful challenge of the 1930s era Humphrey's Executor precedent andym Jul 23 #6

Not yet. This was the say of an injunction. Igel Jul 23 #10

Not yet - and perhaps not at all FBaggins Jul 23 #11

"Unitary executive" is just a fancy term for dictator. valleyrogue Jul 23 #12

As a white guy I feel like I am experiencing the same kind of policies from our walkingman Jul 23 #7

The rightwing majority on this Supreme Court can eat my shorts Martin Eden Jul 23 #8

THIS court gives TSF victory's just bluestarone Jul 23 #9

"Supreme Court hands Trump a Win" ...is the world we live in. C Moon Jul 24 #14

Congressional Republicans are knifing the American people because they're cowards. cstanleytech Jul 24 #15

Shadow docket again Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 24 #16

sinkingfeeling

(56,008 posts)

1. No surprise.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:12 PM

Jul 23

popsdenver

(91 posts)

13. Nope, not at all

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 10:24 PM

Jul 23

going after Elizabeth Warrens Domain...........

No small wonder the Stock Market is skyrocketing.......the Corporations are in heaven because he is destroying everything done by FDR as far as regulation, or regulatory agencies........

They are hell bent to take us back to the GILDED AGE, only with new ROBBER BARRONS.................

The Great Depression won't hold a candle to the one the Republicans/Corporations are about to create..........

Irish_Dem

(72,739 posts)

2. The Supreme Court hates the American people.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:17 PM

Jul 23

They are destroying everything that helps, protects, benefits the people.

bluestarone

(20,005 posts)

3. Gonna be a long 3 and half years.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:22 PM

Jul 23

Fucking judges living high off the hog controlling American DEMOCRACY!! I wish bad health to the yes voters here.

wolfie001

(5,764 posts)

4. People have died because of the judicial malfeasance from these 6 fascist-nazi pigs!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:26 PM

Jul 23

This is quite un-American and anti-human race! christo-fascist nazi ghouls.

Lovie777

(19,474 posts)

5. Just can't have nice things...............

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:36 PM

Jul 23

well not my pay grade.

andym

(6,020 posts)

6. Another successful challenge of the 1930s era Humphrey's Executor precedent

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:46 PM

Jul 23

because the right wing justices believe in the immense power of a unitary executive overriding congressional-based protections for stability and to make some executive branch departments apolitical.

Igel

(37,029 posts)

10. Not yet. This was the say of an injunction.

Reply to andym (Reply #6)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:55 PM

Jul 23

No actual opinion has been issued for this case, like so many others that have been declared to change precedent.

The case will play out, then, likely, Executor will be overruled.

FBaggins

(28,287 posts)

11. Not yet - and perhaps not at all

Reply to Igel (Reply #10)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:29 PM

Jul 23

There were actually two cases within a few years of each other - one that said the president could fire people he appointed... and the other that said he couldn't. The difference turned on whether the agency Congress created was fully part of the executive branch or instead "quasi legislative" and "quasi judicial," in which case he couldn't (other than for cause).

So they could easily rule that both cases remain precedential and rule based on whether each of the agencies involved was clearly part of the executive branch. I suppose they could also rule that in some of these cases the president was firing people for cause... though I don't think the record reflects that.

valleyrogue

(2,245 posts)

12. "Unitary executive" is just a fancy term for dictator.

Reply to andym (Reply #6)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 09:17 PM

Jul 23

The political right is so full of shit trying to hide the real intent behind their terminology.

walkingman

(9,623 posts)

7. As a white guy I feel like I am experiencing the same kind of policies from our

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 06:00 PM

Jul 23

government as poor people and minorities felt pre-1960 for the first time. It seems we just cannot change the nastiness.
I have been privileged all my life, and it is disheartening to see it all slip away in such a short period of time. A sense of helplessness.