Democratic US FTC Commissioner Slaughter wins summary judgment over firing

( July 17, 2025, 21:17 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Rebecca Kelly Slaughter was granted summary judgment in a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump that challenges her dismissal from the Federal Trade Commission. US District Judge Loren L. Alikhan said the government’s attempt to remove Slaughter from her position as a commissioner did not comply with the FTC Act’s removal protections, and those protections remain constitutional. “The Constitution does not task the President with taking care that his preferred policies be faithfully executed; it requires that he faithfully execute the laws of the US. One of those laws is the FTC Act, in which Congress enshrined independence-preserving removal protections for FTC commissioners more than a century ago,” Alikhan wrote in the opinion.See attached file. ...

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Democratic US FTC Commissioner Slaughter wins summary judgment over firing

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