Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson called for eliminating legal protections that prevent presidents from firing commissioners at federal agencies, including the FTC, without cause.
Ferguson’s call came days after the acting solicitor general revealed the Justice Department will ask the high court to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling that established such protections.
“The acting SG is right,” Ferguson said in a statement on X. “Shielding powerful bureaucrats from political accountability is deeply anti-democratic.”
The FTC didn’t immediately respond to a request for further comment.
The 1935 Supreme Court decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States bars presidents ...