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- President Donald Trump’s firing of FTC member Rebecca Slaughter was upheld by the D.C. Circuit in June.
- The ruling overturned the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor precedent that protected agency heads from removal.
- President Donald Trump fired NLRB board member Lauren Wilcox a week into his term.
- The D.C. Circuit reversed Judge Beryl Howell’s March 2025 ruling protecting Wilcox, voting 2-1 in December 2025.