Federal Trade Commissioners Sue Over Illegal Firing

The Hill reports:

Two Federal Trade Commission (FTC) members fired by President Trump sued him Thursday, setting up another major test of his administration’s expansionist view of presidential authority over independent agencies.

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya’s lawsuit seeks backpay and reinstatement under the Supreme Court’s 90-year-old precedent that has enabled for-cause removal protections for independent agency leaders.

Like Trump’s other firings of independent agency leaders, the administration did not claim to have cause for firing the two FTC commissioners. In the termination letters, an administration official told the commissioners their continued service at the FTC was “inconsistent” with the administration’s policies but did not specify further.

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