[RedState] As RedState reported, the Trump administration scored a big win on Monday, with the Supreme Court staying a lower court ruling barring ICE from conducting immigration stops without probable cause. The original decision, which came from Biden-appointed California District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, was spawned after a series of high-profile raids carried out in Los Angeles.
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| Rebecca Slaughter, the sole Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission. President Trump fired her. An anti-Trump judge ordered her reinstated. This has nothing to do with the previous paragraph. |
and another commissioner, Alvaro Bedoya, both filed suit to challenge their removal. However, in June, Bedoya notified the court he was resigning from his position as FTC commissioner so that he could pursue other (gainful) employment. In July, Judge Loren AliKhan (a Biden appointee) issued an order dismissing Bedoya's claims without prejudice (as moot) and granting summary judgment in favor of Slaughter and enjoining the defendants "from removing Ms. Slaughter from her lawful position as an FTC Commissioner or otherwise interfering with Ms. Slaughter’s right to perform her lawful duties as an FTC Commissioner until the expiration of her term or unless she is lawfully removed by the President for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office" pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 41."
The administration appealed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and sought a stay of Judge AliKhan's order. While the D.C. Circuit initially entered an administrative (temporary) stay, on September 2, it denied the administration's motion for stay pending appeal and ordered the administrative stay dissolved.
The administration then filed an application for stay with the Supreme Court on September 4, and the court then issued an order administratively staying the case today (Monday).
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