Former FTC Commissioner REVEALS Trump's DESPERATE POWER GRAB
January 21, 2026
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as posted by the channelLegal AF's Ray Brescia talks to Rebecca Slaughter, the former member of the Federal Trade Commission terminated by President Trump without cause in clear violation of the law and Supreme Court precedent. Brescia and Slaughter examine a long-running constitutional debate that sits at the center of modern administrative law: the scope of the president’s power to remove independent agency officials. This conversation examines how this issue developed historically, from early understandings of executive control to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Humphrey’s Executor, which carved out limits on presidential removal authority. The discussion also goes back to the founding and explores the way the Founders envisioned the separation of powers; why the removal power has come under renewed scrutiny; and what her case means for the future of federal government agencies designed with a degree of independence from the President, by law, including the Federal Reserve.
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