President Donald Trump‘s new wave of firings at independent agencies could spark another legal firestorm over his attempts to leverage his executive branch power.
Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioners Richard Trumka Jr. and Mary Boyle, both of whom were nominated by former President Joe Biden, received notice of their terminations in an email late Thursday night.
The CPSC case marks the third, separate termination by the president of Democrats serving at independent agencies this week alone.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who had served in her position since 2016, and the vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, Alvin Brown, two days prior. And back in March, former Federal Trade Commission commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, both Democrats, claimed that Trump acted “illegally” in firing them before their terms concluded.