Josh Marshall - Brittle Wealth

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Former Judges, officials back fired FederalTrade Commissioner

 A group of prominent Republican lawyers and former senior government officials filed an amicus brief today urging the Supreme Court to hold that the Constitution does not permit President Trump to remove without cause Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from her position as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Amici, who have decades of combined government experience, argue that “for cause” removal restrictions like those at issue here are constitutional, as demonstrated by the original intent of the Constitution’s Framers, the long history of federal multimember regulatory agencies, and the Court’s own precedents. To hold otherwise, amici warn, would radically erode the Constitution’s checks and balances and unconstitutionally concentrate undue, excessive power — including power over the nation’s economy — in the president’s hands. The group includes 24 former White House lawyers, retired federal judges and governors, and other senior government officials who served in senior positions across six Republican presidential administrations.

Amici are represented by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School and by Foley Hoag LLP.

Read the amicus brief

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