http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/32962c75ff0335d5 https://verfassungsblog.de/trump-v-slaughter-and-transatlantic-data-flows/ Trump v Slaughter and Transatlantic Data Flows Noll, Max eng 2026-08-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Data Flows data protection FTC gdpr Independent agencies US Supreme Court Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 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. The Supreme Court’s decision puts the EU-US data transfer regime in peril. That regime rests on the assumption that the Federal Trade Commission supervises the handling of European personal data in the United States independently. After Trump v Slaughter, that assumption of independence no longer holds. While there are ways to fix this, the odds seem low.