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

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 ...

FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya warns that President Trump's firing of him and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter may lead to corrupt corporate pardons.

The unlawful removals of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter pushed journalistic writing to its limit. The unlawful removals of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter pushed journalistic ...

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s firing this week of two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission calls into question how the agency’s lawsuit against the country’s three largest pharmacy middlemen ...

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 ...

Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya chat during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 13, 2023. President Trump fired both on March 18.

The case against Facebook owner Meta alleges the company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to wipe out competition.

Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter sought expedited treatment, opens new tab of their case, saying U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington has everything she needs to decide the ...