<p>The United States Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump on Monday to keep a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission away from her post for now, temporarily pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner Trump has sought to oust.</p>
<p>The court&#8217;s action, known as an administrative stay, gives the justices additional time to consider Trump&#8217;s formal request to let him fire Rebecca Slaughter from the consumer protection agency that enforces antitrust law prior to her term expiring.</p>
<p>The stay was issued by Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles emergency filings arising in Washington, D.C. Roberts asked Slaughter to file a response by next Monday.</p>
<p>The Justice Department made the request on Thursday after Washington-based U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan blocked Trump&#8217;s firing of Slaughter. AliKhan ruled in July that Trump&#8217;s attempt to remove Slaughter did not comply with removal protections in federal law. Congress put such tenure protections in place to give certain regulatory agencies a degree of independence from presidential control.</p>
<p>In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the judge&#8217;s ruling on September 2, prompting the administration&#8217;s request to the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>The lower courts ruled that the statutory protections shielding FTC members from being removed without cause conform with the U.S. Constitution in light of a 1935 Supreme Court precedent in a case called Humphrey&#8217;s Executor v. United States.</p>
<p>In that case, the court ruled that a president lacks unfettered power to remove FTC commissioners, faulting then-President Franklin Roosevelt&#8217;s firing of an FTC commissioner for policy differences.</p>
<p>The administration, in its Supreme Court filing, argued that &#8220;the modern FTC exercises far more substantial powers than the 1935 FTC,&#8221; and thus its members can be fired at will by the president.</p>
<p>The court, in a similar ruling in May, said the Constitution gives the president wide latitude to fire government officials who wield executive power on his behalf.</p>
<p>The administration has repeatedly asked the justices this year to allow implementation of Trump policies impeded by lower courts. The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has sided with the administration in almost every case that it has been called upon to review since Trump returned to the presidency in January.</p>
<p>(Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham)</p>

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