Honestly, we can’t keep up with this guy!
Earlier this week, Trump fired two Democratic FTC commissioners in a direct challenge to the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor Supreme Court decision.
The 1935 case bizarrely held that the Federal Trade Commission is not part of the executive branch, and therefore its commissioners cannot be removed by the president. That makes no constitutional sense.
Trump can count on the current FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson as an ally. “Humphrey’s Executor was wrongly decided, is deeply anti-democratic, and ought to be overruled,” he said. “I will be making a motion to ask my fellow Commissioners to agree to align the FTC’s position on this issue with the President’s position.”
We especially enjoy this argument from one of the deposed FTC Democrats:
We completely agree with her!