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Democratic US senators call for reversal of ‘illegal’ firing of FTC commissioners

( March 19, 2025, 21:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US Senators Maria Cantwell and Amy Klobuchar, along with more than two dozen other Democratic senators and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, have called on President Donald Trump to reverse the firing of Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya from the Federal Trade Commission, which they said was illegal. “This action contradicts long standing Supreme Court precedent, undermines Congress’s constitutional authority to create bipartisan, independent commissions, and upends more than 110 years of work at the FTC to protect consumers from deceptive practices and monopoly power,” they wrote. Statement follows below:...

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