Trump fires Democratic FTC commissioners
ICLE President Geoffrey A. Manne was quoted in a Reason story on the firing of Democratic FTC commissioners. Read the full article here.
Geoffrey A. Manne, president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics, shares Berry’s prediction. In an email to Reason, Manne says Humphrey’s Executor “is probably not long for this world, and thus, neither is the ‘independence’ of the FTC.” Manne explains that the Federal Trade Commission Act requires that no more than three of the commissioners may be of the same political party. Accordingly, once Mark Meador, a Republican, is confirmed as FTC commissioner, “the Commission can just go on as is indefinitely.” Manne also notes that “independent agency independence has always been more limited than people like to believe.”