PoliticsExpires Dec 31, 2026
Creator

SCOTUS lets Trump fire FTC commissioners in Trump v. Slaughter?

Probability

85¢

1h

+1.8pp

24h

+1.9pp

24h Vol

$1.07

Liquidity

$5.3K

Research loop

Inspect the market

Read the move, holders, recent trades, source, and resolution risk before saving anything.

Canonical status

confidence: high

Source status (Polymarket)

active

Derived status (Orrery)

LIVE

Reason

Active market, expiry beyond the near-expiry window.

Resolution & Risk

LOW risk
End date
Dec 31, 2026
UMA status
n/a
Resolution source
Primary
Supreme Court
Type
Court record
Confidence
extracted · high
Market type
Binary
  • Wide spread (10.3¢) — liquidity risk on entry/exit.
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Probability (last 7 days)

-5.1pp 7d
1007550250
85¢
May 11, 2026, 09:00 UTCMay 18, 2026, 08:02 UTC
updated 08:02:55 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·snap:snap_2026-05-18T08-02Z

Why did it move?

Structured · 3 factors
  • 01
    Price move

    Up 2pp over 24h

    Now 85¢; +1.8pp in the last hour.

  • 02
    Active signal

    Resolution-risk observation firing

    Spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable edge.

  • 03
    Spread cost

    Wide spread — 10.3¢

    Bid-ask spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable advantage. Most of the headline pp move would be eaten by spread on a market order.

What to track next

  • Verify the resolution source on this page — exchange feed, official release, news consensus — before treating any move as new information.

Verification actions only — never trade recommendations.

Each factor is grounded in a single named metric you can verify on this page — probability, volume, liquidity, signal, resolution state. No predictions, no prose hallucinations.

Timeline

critical · price · trade flow

Critical

  • Dec 31, 00:00 UTCScheduled resolution

    Market resolves in 5440.0h

    LOW
  • 08:02Signal

    Resolution risk

    Spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable edge.

    LOW

Price movement

+1.9pp over the last 24h, now 85¢.

Biggest hourly move: -20.0pp at May 17, 05:00 UTC (to 69¢).

Show top 8 of 53 hourly moves
  • 08:00 · +13.1pp → 85¢
  • 03:00 · -12.7pp → 70¢
  • May 17, 06:00 UTC · -17.7pp → 60¢
  • May 17, 05:00 UTC · -20.0pp → 69¢
  • May 17, 04:00 UTC · -14.4pp → 74¢
  • May 15, 20:00 UTC · -18.1pp → 72¢
  • May 15, 18:00 UTC · -15.3pp → 75¢
  • May 14, 17:00 UTC · -11.9pp → 78¢
updated 08:02:55 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·Polymarket Data

Active signals

Recent Trades

No recent trades visible from the Data API for this market. That usually means liquidity is thin or this market is between event windows.

updated 08:02:55 UTC·src:Polymarket Data

Market Description

This market will resolve to “Yes” if the Supreme Court, in Trump v. Slaughter, rules to overturn Humphrey's Executor v. United States by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No”. The Supreme Court will be considered to overturn Humphrey's Executor v. United States if they issue a decision in Trump v. Slaughter overruling or substantially limiting Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935), including ruling that the President may remove FTC commissioners at will. If the Supreme court ruling in Trump v. Slaughter affirms that for-cause removal protections for FTC commissioners remain constitutional or if the case is dismissed, settled, or otherwise disposed of without a merits decision within this market’s timeframe, the market will resolve to “No”. If no Supreme Court ruling on the merits of Trump v. Slaughter is issued by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to “No”. The resolution source for this market will be official information from the U.S. Supreme Court; however, a consensus of credible reporting will also be used.

Why this category?

confidence: high

Category

Politics

Source

Manual override (pattern match)

Matched term

supreme court ruling

Reason

SCOTUS-ruling markets — Politics.

Categories come from a deterministic engine: manual overrides (highest priority) → sports hard markers → event-tag rules → keyword rules → Gamma category hint → default. The engine is versioned in category-overrides.ts; methodology lives at /methodology.

FAQ — questions readers actually ask

What is the current Polymarket probability for "SCOTUS lets Trump fire FTC commissioners in Trump v. Slaughter?"?

As of Mon, 18 May 2026 08:02:55 GMT, YES is priced at 85% implied probability on Polymarket. The price changed +1.9pp in the last 24 hours, +1.8pp in the last hour, and -5.1pp in the last 7 days.

When does this market resolve?

This market resolves by Dec 31, 2026 (2026-12-31T00:00:00.000Z). Resolution is determined from the market description on Polymarket.

What source determines the outcome?

Resolution is sourced from the market description on Polymarket. Polymarket's UMA optimistic oracle is the final settlement layer; if the published source is ambiguous, UMA tokenholders adjudicate. Source-extraction confidence is shown in the Resolution & Risk block above.

How much is being traded on this market?

$1.07 of trading volume in the last 24 hours. Lifetime volume on Polymarket: $21.4K. Open liquidity in the YES/NO orderbooks: $5.3K. Spread between best bid and best ask: 10.3¢.

Is this a trade recommendation?

No. Orrery describes — never predicts. Every signal on this market carries explicit Evidence, Backtest, and Action tiers. The Action is always one of: Watch only, Inspect timeline, Create alert, Verify source, or Ignore — never Buy or Sell. The probability above is the market's collective implied probability, not a forecast Orrery is publishing.

How fresh is this data and where does it come from?

This page revalidates from the public Polymarket APIs every 30 seconds. Probability and 24h-change come from Gamma; the chart series comes from the CLOB orderbook history; trade and holder data come from the Data API. The fetched-at timestamp on each block tells you exactly how old the underlying upstream pull was.

Alerts

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