Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire FTC Commissioner

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire the only remaining Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, teeing up a case that could overturn a 90-year-old precedent and give the White House tighter control over federal regulators.

The appeal tests a 1935 Supreme Court ruling that said Congress could insulate at least some high-ranking officials from being fired. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has chipped away at that ruling but so far has stopped short of directly reversing it.