It has been a turbulent time at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission), with several months of legal battles over President Trump’s termination, without cause, of the three Democratic commissioners, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, Mary Boyle, and Richard Trumka. As we previously discussed here, the commissioners were fired in May 2025 and then reinstated by a federal district court in June 2025. The Fourth Circuit upheld that decision, but the Supreme Court reversed, sending the matter back to the Fourth Circuit in July 2025, where the issue of the president’s authority to fire the CPSC commissioners without cause is still being litigated. Now, with the resignation of Republican Commissioner Douglas Dziak, only one commissioner remains: Acting Chairman Peter Feldman, also a Republican. How will the Commission operate now?

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