“President Donald Trump’s firing of two Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission sets up a showdown over a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision that Republicans long have wanted to undo,” Bloomberg reports.
“The dismissals of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya yesterday also will give the Trump White House greater influence over pending cases involving Meta, Amazon and Elon Musk’s X.”
“Slaughter and Bedoya contend their terminations were illegal and plan to sue. That will give the administration a vehicle to challenge a 1935 Supreme Court decision in a case known as Humphrey’s Executor v. United States and provide another opportunity for Trump to test the limits of presidential power.”
