Democrats Fired from F.T.C. Sue President Trump Over Dismissals

two Former Democrats of the Federal Trade Committee Laying a lawsuit against President Trump on Thursday for his decision to shoot them from the agency, accusing him of illegal overcoming the executive authority.

On March 18, Democratic Commissioners, Rebecca Kelly Siloter and Alvaro Bedoue, launched a consumer protection agency, which is usually run by three members of the President’s party and two of the opposition party.

In a lawsuit submitted by the local United States Court of Colombia, the lawyers of Mrs. Silter and Mr. Bedoya have argued that the Messenger of Mr. Trump on them was for no reason and violation of federal law. Cited a 1935 precedent of the Supreme Court However, the president may not shoot only members of independent organizational councils due to political differences.

The lawsuit said: “In short, basically, a precedent is obligated that the president cannot remove the FTC Commissioner for no reason.” “The president’s work cannot be defended under the ruling law.”

“The Trump administration was working on its legal authority when it decided that the service of the former FTC Commissioners was not consistent with the administration’s priorities,” Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, Taylor Rogers, said in a statement.

The lawsuit was the latest legal battle for an explosion on Mr. Trump’s attempts to expand the presidency. In recent months, more than 50 court rulings have stopped in many cases the measures that the administration has temporarily taken, starting with Adian position on deportation To launch civil service employees.

Legal battles also affected the organizers who created Congress to be independent of direct control of the White House. While the organizers are appointed by the president, many of them traditionally had a wide offer to determine the direction of their agencies.

But Mr. Trump earlier launched Join Wilkox, a democratic in the National Council for Labor Relations, which was A federal court restored This month. The administration has resumed this ruling.

Mr. Trump also The executive was signed last month Which influenced FTC, the Securities and Stock Exchange Committee, the Federal Communications Committee and the National Council for Labor Relations. The executive order ordered the directives of these agencies to submit proposed regulations to the White House for review, as well as the announcement that they must accept them as a obligation to the interpretations of the law presented by the President and the Ministry of Justice, among other measures.

Mrs. Slotter and Mr. Bedoui also appointed the Union Commissioners among Republicans – the agency’s president, Andrew Ferguson, and Melissa Hollyuk – as a defendant. They also appointed the agency’s executive director, David B. Robbins.

The 1914 law that FTC established it is that commissioners can be removed from the five -member council due to “incompetence, neglect of duty or violations in his position.” The Supreme Court strengthened that protection in the 1930s when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to shoot a member of FTC

In a letter sent on behalf of Mr. Trump last week to inform one of the terminal commissioners, the White House said that the protection established by the Supreme Court ruling does not apply to those who led FTC today.

On Thursday, Mr. Ferguson said in a statement published to Q that “his former colleagues are entitled to their day in court, but I have no doubt that President Trump’s legal powers will be confirmed in the end.”

In the lawsuit, the lawyers of Mrs. Slotter and Mr. Bidoya said that the two were “deprived of reaching their offices” and they were now listed as former members of the FTC website. Their employees were also placed on an administrative leave, according to the case.

FTC was responsible for some of the biggest confrontation between American companies and the federal government. In April, the agency is scheduled to face a Facebook and Instagram and other applications, in the anti -monopoly experience on whether the technology giant strangled the emerging competitors illegally when he bought Instagram and WhatsApp.

FTC has also filed lawsuits against Amazon, on the pretext that it has made it difficult for consumers to cancel its initial subscription service and the young merchants who use its location.

During the reign of Mr. Ferguson, the agency has increasingly turned its focus into the power of large online platforms on speech and speech. Last month, the agency began to seek comments from the people and the actions that they said were incorrectly removed by social media.