This is important, John: In a 6-3 decision earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court let Donald Trump get away with another MASSIVE power-grab to benefit giant corporations and billionaires like himself.
Trump fired both Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, which historically has three members from the sitting president’s party and two members from the opposing party. This critical agency is in charge of protecting consumers and enforcing antitrust laws to stop corporate corruption.
The FTC’s mission is “protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices and from unfair methods of competition through law enforcement, advocacy, research, and education.” It is crucial that this agency remain fair and independent from executive overreach.
Justice Elena Kagan warned that the Court’s far-right supermajority “has handed full control of…agencies to the president” again and again through shadow docket orders like this one, eliminating the bipartisanship and independence of agencies such as the FTC – ultimately putting Americans at risk and opening the door to more corruption.
Trump’s hand-picked loyalists and the rest of the conservative justices on the Court are on the brink of throwing 90 years of legal precedent out the window and expanding Trump’s authority EVEN MORE, all at the expense of working people and our democracy.
In solidarity,
Demand Justice PAC
