Commission members Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro M. Bedoya claim their dismissals were unlawful and should be reversed.

The Supreme Court unanimously held in a 1935 case, Humphrey's Executor v. United States, that "Congress intended to restrict the power of removal to one or more of those causes." The case involved ...

The FTC historically had a 3–2 partisan split, with the president's party having a one-seat advantage. But President Trump ...

A group of attorney generals have hypothesized about President Donald Trump trying to remove high-ranking judges like U.S. Supreme Court justices, in a letter supporting two Federal Trade Commission ...

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro M. Bedoya have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia aiming to reverse President Donald Trump's decision to fire them without cause ...

Two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sought on Friday to expedite their lawsuit challenging ...

Bedoya’s term expires in 2026 and Slaughter’s is up in 2029. Bedoya was nominated to the FTC under President Joe Biden, while Slaughter was first nominated by President Donald Trump.

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

Counsel for Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya allege Trump unlawfully removed the Democratic FTC commissioners in violation of federal law and a 90-year U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

On March 18, Democratic Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter received an email from the White House stating that they were fired, effective immediately and without any legal cause.