最高法院允许特朗普无故解雇民主党任命的消费品安全委员会的三名成员,取消了下级法院在诉讼期间恢复委员职务的命令。
周三的决定是一系列裁决中的最新一项,这些裁决确认了特朗普在决定行政部门人员配置方面的广泛权力,即使在国会可能试图让各机构免受政治干预的情况下。
在一份简短的、未签署的命令中,法院援引了一项早些时候的决定——也是对特朗普有利的——允许终止NLRB和MSPB的成员,称股权对政府有利。
在该案中,法院的结论是“我们的判断是,与被错误免职的官员无法履行其法定职责相比,政府因允许被免职的官员继续行使行政权力的命令而面临更大的损害风险。”
周三,最高法院表示:“这里陈述的事实也是如此,消费者产品安全委员会以与国家劳工类似的方式行使行政权力
关系委员会。"
在对自由派大法官的异议中,埃琳娜·卡根大法官指责保守派多数派再次“破坏了国会建立的独立机构的独立性”
Supreme Court allows Trump removal of Consumer Product Safety Commissioners
The Supreme Court allowed Trump to fire three Democratic-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission without cause, lifting a lower court order that the commissioners be reinstated during the litigation.
Wednesday's decision is the latest in a string of rulings affirming Trump's broad power to determine staffing of the executive branch, even where Congress may have tried to insulate agencies from political interference.
In a short, unsigned order, the court invoked an earlier decision -- also in Trump's favor -- allowing termination of members of the NLRB and MSPB, saying the equities were in the administration's favor.
In that case, the court concluded "our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty."
On Wednesday, the court said: "The same is true on the facts presented here, where the Consumer Product Safety Commission exercises executive power in a similar manner as the National Labor
Relations Board."
In a dissent for the liberal justices, Justice Elena Kagan accused the conservative majority of again "destroying the independence of an independent agency, established by Congress."