The Left is having a meltdown — and it’s delicious.
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump yet another win, quietly but firmly smacking down a lower court ruling that tried to force him to keep a Democrat in power at the Federal Trade Commission. Yes, seriously. A sitting president is apparently not allowed to remove someone from a key regulatory post — because Congress wrote some “independence” language into a dusty law from the 1930s.
Enter Rebecca Slaughter, the liberal FTC commissioner Trump has been trying to remove. She’s been clinging to her seat like it’s a lifeboat on the Titanic, thanks to a federal judge and a D.C. appeals court that suddenly forgot the Constitution exists.
But now, the Supreme Court has stepped in. And it’s getting interesting.
BREAKING — SCOTUS SIDES WITH TRUMP: Allows him to FIRE a Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission
Activist judges lose AGAIN!
The Supreme Court might just be the last legitimate court in the United States. pic.twitter.com/HrOQXDawNc
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 8, 2025
BREAKING — SCOTUS SIDES WITH TRUMP: Allows him to FIRE a Democrat on the Federal Trade CommissionChief Justice John Roberts issued what’s known as an administrative stay — legal speak for “pause button” — that blocks a lower court order requiring Trump to reinstate Slaughter, at least for now. That means she’s on the sidelines while the justices review whether Trump, the elected President of the United States, actually has the power to fire someone he doesn’t trust to carry out his agenda.
BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts handed President Donald Trump a temporary win on Monday, allowing him to terminate a Federal Trade Commission member, for now, despite nearly a century of precedent. @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/0PEBhnwlJ3
— Kelsey Reichmann (@KelseyReichmann) September 8, 2025
You’d think that would be a no-brainer.
But nope — thanks to an obscure 1935 case called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the courts have been hiding behind a nearly 100-year-old precedent that says the president can’t remove FTC commissioners just for policy disagreements. Apparently, in today’s Washington, unelected bureaucrats have more job security than most Americans.
The kicker? That ruling was about FDR — yes, that FDR — trying to get rid of a commissioner who didn’t share his vision. Sound familiar?
Trump’s team made the obvious argument: that the modern-day FTC has evolved into a far more powerful, policy-making beast than it was back when people were listening to news on the radio and eating Spam for dinner. They argued that FTC commissioners do wield executive power now, and therefore, should be accountable to the executive.
Seems pretty logical, right?
But logic isn’t exactly in fashion in D.C. these days. What is in fashion? Weaponized resistance, judicial activism, and bureaucrats who treat their appointments like royal titles. Slaughter’s allies want us to believe she’s some kind of neutral protector of consumer rights. But make no mistake — she’s a dyed-in-the-wool progressive who’s been pushing antitrust theory straight from the Elizabeth Warren playbook.
Trump knows it. The administration knows it. And the Supreme Court seems to know it too.
What’s really happening here is bigger than just one commissioner. This is about restoring basic executive authority — something Democrats only seem to care about when they hold the Oval Office. Funny how that works.
Remember all the outrage when Trump dared to push back on entrenched agencies that had been running unchecked for decades? Now that he’s back, and taking names, the panic is setting in again. From the DOJ to the FTC, every institution that enjoyed four years of resistance cosplay under Biden is now scrambling to preserve its grip on power.
They’ll sue. They’ll leak. They’ll screech about “norms” and “democracy” and try to turn obscure procedural rulings into constitutional crises. But the bottom line is simple:
The people elected Donald Trump — not Rebecca Slaughter. Not Judge AliKhan. And certainly not the ghosts of 1935.
The next few weeks will be telling. Slaughter has until Monday to respond. The court will weigh in after that. But if past is prologue — and with a 6-3 conservative majority on the bench — the writing’s on the wall.
Trump is doing what he was elected to do: drain the swamp, challenge the old guard, and take back control from the unelected machine.
And judging by the Left’s reaction, he’s hitting a nerve. Again.
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