Dismissed Democrats on Federal Trade Commission sue Trump administration

Two former Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission–Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter–filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the remaining commissioners, claiming their recent termination was without cause and that the courts should rule their dismissals as “unlawful and ineffective.”

Bedoya posted a link to the lawsuit on X, formerly Twitter, saying the bigger issue was “economic stability.” In an initial statement following his dismissal March 18 he called the move “illegal.”

“If the president can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC, and SEC,” Bedoya wrote, citing the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Securities and Exchange Commission as likely next targets. “If the President can fire us for no reason, at any time, that’s the opposite of stability.”