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Former US FTC chairs says firing of Slaughter upsets balance of power

( November 14, 2025, 18:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A bipartisan group of former US Federal Trade Commission chairs filed a brief telling the Supreme Court that allowing the president to exercise at-will removal power over agency commissioners would undermine the bipartisan, multimember structure that Congress deliberately established. “By effectively negating Congress’s power to structure the FTC as a bipartisan, multimember commission, the President’s assertion of at-will removal power over Commissioner [Rebecca] Slaughter upsets the balance between co-equal branches that the constitutional separation of powers demands,” they argued.See attached file. ...

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