"The Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and other consumer advocacy and tech groups are speaking up in defense of former FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was fired without cause by the Trump administration in March. A total of 40 groups - which also include Demand Progress Information Center and UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice - filed an amicus brief today"
"The groups argue that if this happens, independent agencies like the FTC could become politicized and influenced by lobbying, weakening their ability to effectively pass regulations. The brief points to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) as warnings, stating that they "have too often succumbed to industry domination, leading to regulatory failures that cost lives and erode public trust.""
Forty consumer advocacy and tech organizations filed an amicus brief defending former FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter after the Trump administration fired her without cause in March. The Supreme Court is asked to decide whether the administration exceeded its legal authority, a ruling that could overturn the 90-year-old Humphrey's Executor precedent that restricts presidential removal of independent commissioners. The groups warn that allowing unfettered presidential removal would politicize independent agencies, invite industry influence and lobbying, and weaken regulatory capacity. The brief cites FAA and FSIS regulatory failures as examples of industry domination that cost lives and erode public trust.
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