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The court seemed ready to make it easier for President Trump to fire independent government officials, despite laws insulating them from political pressure.
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and his base.
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The justices’ questions were relentlessly split along partisan lines, with the Republican appointees seeming to side with the administration and the Democratic ones on the other side. Usually, there are at least some surprises.
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Many of the court’s conservatives appear quite skeptical of the arguments made by the lawyer for the fired F.T.C. commissioner Rebecca Slaughter that Congress should be able to limit the ability of presidents to fire leaders of independent agencies.
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Justice Roberts says the Federal Trade Commission shielded 90 years ago by the key precedent looked nothing like the F.T.C. today, which he says exercises enormous executive power.
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The enormous sweep of last year’s decision granting President Trump substantial immunity from prosecution is apparent in this argument, where there has been repeated reference to that decision’s expansive vision of presidential power.
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The lawyer for the fired F.T.C. commissioner Rebecca Slaughter argued that a decision by the justices allowing the president the power to fire leaders of independent agencies meant that “everything is on the chopping block.”
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The court has already ruled that Congress cannot limit the president’s power to fire agencies led by a single official. The question before the court today is if it can insulate members of multi-member commissions from removal.
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Justice Kavanaugh is concerned with the practical consequences of the court’s rulings. He has repeatedly discussed making sure that the court’s eventual decision does not threaten the independence of the Federal Reserve.
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Kavanaugh expresses doubts about one part of the administration’s argument: that even if the fired commissioner wins, she is not entitled to reinstatement but only to back pay. If that argument were accepted, Kavanaugh says, it could affect the Fed.
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The money will go to producers of products including corn, wheat, potatoes, cotton and soybeans, which China only recently agreed to resume buying.
Rising deductibles and premiums that could more than double are worsening fears that many will no longer be able to pay for medical care.
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The offer to shareholders came days after Warner Bros. agreed to sell its streaming and studio business to Netflix.
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Moscow has ramped up covert operations in Mexico, with spies meeting handlers in its bustling capital and seaside resorts, U.S. officials say.
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The destiny of Ukraine “is the destiny of Europe,” the German chancellor said, as he and others met with President Volodymyr Zelensky in London.
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They appeared all over — on courts and carpets, stages and sidelines, screens big and small. And they all shaped notions of style and self-expression.
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The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their dependence on Beijing’s critical metals.
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President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.
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President Trump expressed his love of “Phantom of the Opera,” got in more digs at Jimmy Kimmel and joked about adding his name to the arts center.
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As Gao Zhen awaits trial in China, his wife and child live in limbo, unable to return to America, sustained by the portraits he fashions from scraps of paper.
A year ago, rebels overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, ending decades of autocracy and civil war. But challenges remain for the new leadership.
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A cease-fire after two years of war with Israel has allowed Hamas to tighten its grip on power again. “It’s still standing,” one Israeli official said.
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At an annual event for Democratic governors, optimism about next year overshadowed the search for a long-term vision.
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The studio’s film “One Battle After Another,” and an HBO show it owns, “The White Lotus,” scored the most nominations for movies and television shows.
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Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers in younger people, but that has brought a debate over whether many cases ever needed to be found.
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