MSNBC Exclusive: Fmr. FTC Commissioner blasts Supreme Court for allowing Trump to fire her

Conservative justices on the Supreme Court have just cleared the way for Donald Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, the lone Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, at least for now, as the court decides whether to append 90 years of legal precedent and give the executive branch more authority over supposedly independent government agencies. In her descent, Justice Elena Kagan blasted the decision, writing, "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent ...