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Its recent decisions narrowed tools prosecutors used in public‑corruption and fraud cases. - Issued rulings tightening corruption law; now asked to send Lopez–Full Play case back for dismissal
U.S. prosecutors spent years proving that Hernan Lopez, a former Fox International Channels CEO, and the sports marketing firm Full Play bribed South American soccer officials to lock down lucrative TV rights. A Brooklyn jury convicted them in 2023, a judge threw those convictions out, an appeals court revived them in July 2025—and now the government is telling the Supreme Court it wants the whole case dismissed in “the interests of justice.”
Updated Dec 11, 2025
The Supreme Court is the nation’s highest judicial body, currently composed of a 6–3 conservative majority. It has become the central arena for debates over the constitutional status of independent regulatory agencies and the scope of presidential control. - Hearing and shaping core precedent on presidential power over independent agencies
In 2025, President Donald Trump launched an aggressive campaign to assert sweeping authority over independent federal agencies, testing the long‑standing 1935 Supreme Court precedent in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States that limited presidential power to fire members of multi‑member regulatory commissions. After the Supreme Court used its emergency docket to let Trump remove Democratic members of the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the conflict escalated when Trump fired Democratic Federal Trade Commission commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter in March 2025 and later attempted to oust Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, both before their fixed terms expired.
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