Trump celebrates Supreme Court ruling that allows him to fire employees of federal agencies
US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to kick off the Great American State Fair in celebration of the 250th anniversary of US independence, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., USA, June 24, 2026.
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United States President Donald Trump celebrated this Monday (29) a Supreme Court decision that allows him to fire a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the independent federal agency that regulates competition.
The decision expands presidential powers over the government and reverses the Court's own 1935 precedent, which had recognized Congress's authority to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removals.
"This decision has been sought after by US presidents since the 1930s", Trump published in Truth Social.
"It is a great honor to be the sitting president who obtained this historic and unprecedented decision," he added.
The decision was a victory for the Republican, but it came on the same day as a series of defeats on various issues related to the Republican's mandate.
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Defeats for Trump
Firing of Fed director
Also on Monday (29), the Supreme Court prohibited Trump from firing the director of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Lisa Cook.
The Republican had announced the director's resignation last year, increasing pressure on the American BC. If he had succeeded, he would be the first president to dismiss a member of the Fed since its creation in 1913.
Trump announced his resignation in August 2025, but the courts blocked the measure. The White House appealed, and the Supreme Court confirmed the decision this Monday (29).
The decision was close: five ministers voted to block the dismissal, against four in favor.
Votes by mail
The Supreme Court decided to support state laws that allow ballots sent by mail and received after Election Day to be counted in the midterm elections, scheduled for November.
The decision represents a defeat for US President Donald Trump, who sought bar the counting of mail ballots after Election Day.
The justices, in a 5-4 decision, overturned a lower court's ruling that had found the Mississippi law incompatible with U.S. rules that define the calendar of federal elections - for the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Sexual abuse and defamation case
The court also rejected, on Monday, an attempt by Trump to overturn a jury's decision to 2023 which concluded that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll and subsequently defamed her.
The Supreme Court judges refused to analyze the US president's appeal and confirmed the decision already issued by a lower court in 2024.
In practice, with the decision and appeals exhausted, Trump will now have to pay US$5 million - the equivalent of R$25.8 million - to the writer, compensation determined in the trial sentence.
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