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President has authority to fire FTC commissioners, Trump tells Supreme Court

( October 10, 2025, 21:37 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Trump administration told the US Supreme Court that it is clear that the president has the power to fire heads of multimember agencies, such as Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter of the US Federal Trade Commission, because Congress lacks the authority to "insulate those agency heads from presidential control by barring the President from removing them at will." The dispute over Slaughter's firing from the FTC, the Trump administration told the justices, "raises constitutional questions of surpassing importance."See attached document....

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