Federal Trade Commission Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (left) chats with Alvaro Bedoya (right) before FTC Chair Lina Khan testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 13, 2023. (Shuran Huang for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The three-judge panel, comprising two Obama appointees and one Trump appointee, lifted that pause on Tuesday, which allows Slaughter to return to work. The Trump administration can appeal the decision.
Department of Justice attorneys had argued for the appellate court to grant the Trump administration a stay, pointing to the Supreme Court’s decision to do the same in a recent separate case involving other independent agencies.
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"The court’s reinstatement of a principal officer of the United States—in defiance of recent Supreme Court precedent staying similar reinstatements in other cases—works a grave harm to the separation of powers and the President’s ability to exercise his authority under the Constitution," the attorneys wrote.
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