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Administrative, constitutional law professors back Slaughter over firing from US FTC

( November 12, 2025, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A group of administrative and constitutional law professors told the US Supreme Court that the for-cause limitation on the president’s ability to remove federal officers serves to protect the public from direct presidential intervention in decisions and other actions that Congress has concluded should be made without direct presidential political and/or policy input. They filed a brief in support of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter in her challenge to her firing from the Federal Trade Commission. They argued that focusing on the work an agency actually does and how it does it illustrates why the government’s unitary executive approach to removal issues produces results very much at odds with the goals of Congress.See attached file. ...

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