DOJ Asks Federal Court to Maintain Stay Against Slaughter’s FTC Reinstatement
A federal court should continue blocking FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from returning to the commission because the “balance of harms” favors the Trump administration, DOJ argued Wednesday in a reply brief.
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DOJ asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a stay pending its appeal of the court's order recently reinstating Slaughter at the agency (see 2507180039). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the administration’s request for an emergency stay on Monday, allowing the district court to rule on the merits (see 2507220029).
DOJ cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Wilcox and its emphasis that “the balance of harms favors [the administration] in reinstatement cases like this one.” DOJ referenced the high court’s finding that a “stay is appropriate to avoid the disruptive effect of the repeated removal and reinstatement of officers during the pendency of this litigation.”