( September 18, 2025, 1:50 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — 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 filed conditional petitions for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court after a purportedly fired Federal Trade Commission commissioner concurred with the federal government’s argument that the high court should grant certiorari in that case before judgment to decide the scope of the president’s power....