District judge rejects SCOTUS rulings and rubbishes Trump admins attempt to pause reinstatement of fired Biden appointee
Source: Law & Crime
Jul 26th, 2025, 1:38 pm
A federal judge in Washington. D.C., this week strongly rejected a request by the Trump administration to pause her own order mandating the reinstatement of previously-fired, Joe Biden-appointed Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. And, in doing so, the judge also rejected comparisons to a recent series of highly-contentious U.S. Supreme Court rulings on similar issues.
In a seven-page order, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan, a Joe Biden appointee, denied a Wednesday request by the U.S. Department of Justice to stay her July 18, ruling which found that Slaughter's firing was "invalid" and declared her to be "a rightful Commissioner of the FTC."
"On irreparable harm, Defendants' motion is woefully deficient," the judge intones in the order rejecting the stay request. "This court will not permit Defendants to continue engaging in unlawful action on the mere basis of 'some possibility of irreparable injury.'"
In the underlying case – as in many such cases concerning fired political appointees that have caught the D.C. federal court system's attention during the second Trump administration – a great deal of the legal analysis is focused on a 1935 Supreme Court opinion about limitations on the president's ability to fire appointed officials at will.
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Full headline: 'Continue engaging in unlawful action': District judge rejects SCOTUS rulings and rubbishes Trump admin's attempt to pause reinstatement of fired Biden appointee
Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26031830-slaughter-v-trump/
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26031830/slaughter-v-trump.pdf
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