Trump v Slaughter and Transatlantic Data FlowsOn June 29, breaking with long-standing precedent, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Trump v Slaughter that a US president does not need cause to remove a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. After Trump v Slaughter, that assumption of independence no longer holds. European data protection law permits the transfer of personal data to third countries only under qualified conditions designed to ensure a level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the Union. Trump v Slaughter and the End of FTC IndependenceTrump v Slaughter now adds a new and serious complication to this already long list of concerns. Yet Slaughter does not speak to this (Trump v Slaughter slip op.