More than two dozen congressional Democrats are urging an appeals court to rule that President Donald Trump cannot fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
It’s the latest Democratic attempt to push back against the Trump administration’s dramatic reshaping of independent agencies. Several emergency rulings from the Supreme Court have set the stage for Trump to override independent agencies and greatly expand his presidential power.
The group of Democrats — from both the House and Senate — say they “have an unparalleled interest in affirming Congress’s authority to enact removal protections for the CPSC and the over thirty other multimember independent agencies created by Congress.”