The members of the U.S. Supreme Court just gave President Donald Trump the green light to fire Democratic members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). 

Fox News reports that it was a 6 to 3 decision, with Democratically-appointed Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.

This should conclude a legal battle that has been ongoing for months.

BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Trump’s emergency appeal booting Dem appointees from the Consumer Product Safety Commission

Apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent

This follows a prior grant allowing Trump to remove labor regulators (Trump v. Wilcox)@CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/pPOhwErvwH

— Kelsey Reichmann (@KelseyReichmann) July 23, 2025

Background

Back in May 2025, Trump fired three Democratic members of the CPSC.

At the time, The Hill reported:

The three Democratic commissioners on the five-person panel are Richard Trumka Jr., Mary Boyle and Alexander Hoehn-Saric, who were all appointed by former President Biden and confirmed by the Senate. Trumka is the son of late AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

This move left the five-member board with two Republican members. Those whom Trump fired immediately took action to challenge their termination in court, and they obtained an early victory.

The judge wrote:

Depriving this five-member commission of three of its sitting members threatens severe impairment of its ability to fulfill its statutory mandates and advance the public's interest in safe consumer products. This hardship and threat to public safety significantly outweighs any hardship defendants might suffer from plaintiffs' participation on the CPSC.

The Trump administration then filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, looking to get this lower court decision overturned.

Another Supreme Court win for Trump

Now, the members of the U.S. Supreme Court have granted Trump's request in the emergency appeal.

Reuters reports:

The Supreme Court in a brief unsigned order indicated that the Trump administration was likely to show that the president is authorized by the U.S. Constitution to remove Consumer Product Safety Commission members. It was the latest in a series of legal victories for Trump in which the Supreme Court halted lower court rulings that had blocked his actions.

The liberal justices disagreed.

They, according to Reuters, argued that the Supreme Court here used its "emergency docket to destroy the independence of an independent agency, as established by Congress."

This latest decision from the Supreme Court is not that surprising, considering that it is in line with an earlier case that the court decided involving the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board.