Supreme Court sides with Trump on firing of officials from independent federal agencies
The workers will be fired as the case proceeds.
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily granted a motion from the Trump administration to allow the firing of two federal officials who said they were improperly terminated.
The court voted 6-3 in favor of the Trump administration, with liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent.
'He may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions ...'
The two former employees of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board argued that they could only be fired for cause and that no qualifying cause was given. The case also touches on the larger debate over how much power the executive has over agencies set up to be "independent" by Congress.
"Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President," the ruling said, "he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents ..."
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