A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the firing of a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by President Trump was illegal.

U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan, a Biden administration appointee, said the Trump administration's "attempt to remove' Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter "did not comply with the FTC Act's removal protections."

"Defendants repeatedly want the FTC to be something it is not: a subservient agency subject to the whims of the President and wholly........

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