Democratic AGs Request Expedited Reversal of FTC Firings
President Donald Trump’s recent firings of FTC commissioners were illegal and undermine bipartisan work on privacy enforcement, a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general wrote Friday in an amicus brief.
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AGs from states including Colorado, California, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Nevada and Wisconsin requested expedited summary judgment in a lawsuit Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya filed against Trump and the agency (see 2504150021).
The firings violate the FTC Act and U.S. Supreme Court precedent in Humphrey’s Executor, they said. They noted the FTC’s collaboration in 2019 with AGs from all 50 states in obtaining up to $700 million in a settlement over privacy allegations against Equifax. Bipartisanship at the FTC “serves important” antitrust and consumer protection policy objectives, they said.