The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat-appointed member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who was fired last year by President Donald Trump.
The justices turned down Wilcox’s petition on Oct. 19 in an unsigned order. No justices dissented. No reasons were provided.
The decision leaves intact a December 2025 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the president may remove NLRB members at will. It follows the Supreme Court’s June 29 decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which overruled the 1935 precedent, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, and held that Congress may not restrict the president’s power to fire members of multi-member independent agencies that exercise executive power….