The justices also say they are going to review a landmark 1935 decision protecting certain executive appointees from presidential dismissal. The court also says that later this year it will revisit a landmark 1935 decision protecting certain executive appointees from presidential dismissal. In March, Mr. Trump dismissed both Democratic members of the FTC, Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. Slaughter, Ms. Cook has won relief from district and appellate court judges in her quest to keep her job. Slaughter did, Ms. Cook cited Humphrey’s Executor as a binding precedent that protected her from presidential dismissal.