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“Although our interim orders are not conclusive as to the merits, they inform how a court should exercise its equitable discretion in like cases,” the unsigned order reads.
The ruling reinforces the Trump administration’s aggressive push to dismantle removal protections for members of independent agencies, challenging a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent that allowed Congress to create such safeguards. The CPSC commissioners, appointed by former President Joe Biden, were dismissed earlier this year. Trump offered no justification for their removal, even though federal law grants independent agency officials “for-cause” removal protections.
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