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Trump Fires Democratic FTC Commissioners

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President Donald Trump fired FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Tuesday .

In so doing, Trump is ignoring a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent that restricts the removal of commissioners to "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office" The relevant precedent is the 1935 Supreme Court case Humphrey 's Executor v. U.S ..

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