Bedoya’s term expires in 2026 and Slaughter’s is up in 2029. Bedoya was nominated to the FTC under President Joe Biden, while Slaughter was first nominated by President Donald Trump.

Two Federal Trade Commission members who were fired this month have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing on Thursday that the decision violated a long-established legal precedent ...

Counsel for Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya allege Trump unlawfully removed the Democratic FTC commissioners in violation of federal law and a 90-year U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya are seeking back pay and reinstatement. Two former Federal Trade Commissioners are suing the Trump administration for moving to fire them last week, arguing it ...

And they have deals with the president, to boot. A legal ethics scholar explores the morass. At this moment of deep political division, bold ideas to preserve American democracy are more important ...

Two former Federal Trade Commissioners are suing the Trump administration for moving to fire them last week, arguing it violates federal law. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro M. Bedoya have ...

The lawsuit, filed jointly by Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that President Donald Trump violated federal statutes and long ...

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya’s lawsuit seeks back pay and reinstatement under the Supreme Court’s 90-year-old precedent that has enabled for-cause removal protections for ...

Federal Trade Commission Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (L) and Alvaro Bedoya (R) sit behind then-FTC Chair Lina Khan in a July 2023 Congressional hearing. Both Slaughter and Bedoya were ...

On March 18, Democratic Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter received an email from the White House stating that they were fired, effective immediately and without any legal cause.