Two Federal Trade Commission members who were fired this month are suing the Trump administration. They said on Thursday that the decision went against a long-standing legal precedent that forbids political firings.
The White House sent Democratic Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya on March 18 to inform them that they were dismissed, effective immediately, and without cause. According to the lawsuit, President Donald Trump stated in the email that their “continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my Administration’s priorities.
Trump’s dismissal of the commissioners immediately raised concerns that the administration was weakening and undercutting independent regulators and watchdogs in Washington. “The president wants the FTC to be a lapdog for his golfing buddies,” Bedoya wrote in a harsh critique posted on X in March after the firings.
Several independent organisations, including the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, offer removal protections. The lawsuit claims that President Franklin Roosevelt’s disputed message in the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor v. United States case was echoed “nearly word-for-word” in Trump’s email to the commissioners.
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