SUPREME COURT REBUFFS CHALLENGE TO JOB PROTECTIONS FOR US CONSUMER WATCHDOG LEADERS

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a conservative challenge to job protections for the leaders of the federal consumer product safety watchdog in a case that would have given the justices a chance to reassess a 1935 precedent that limits a president's ability to fire certain agency heads.

The justices turned away an appeal by plaintiffs led by the conservative group Consumers' Research of a lower court's ruling upholding the protections involving the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent agency within the federal government's executive branch.

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