( September 23, 2025, 12:58 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 22 denied conditional petitions for writs of certiorari before judgment filed by a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and a member of the National Labor Relations Board who were each purportedly fired by President Donald J. Trump within the first few weeks of his second term; on the same day, a divided high court granted a request by the federal government to consider statutory removal protections in an appeal over the president’s purported removal of a Federal Trade Commission commissioner....