DC Circuit Upholds Reinstatement of FTC Commissioner Fired by Trump, Cites 90-Year-Old Precedent
The divided panel said federal law prohibits the president from firing Federal Trade Commission members without cause. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the the statutory for-cause removal protections for FTC members in its 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.

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