Staff Reports
The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling affirming President Donald Trump’s authority to reshape the Federal Trade Commission by removing Democrat-appointed commissioners, striking a blow to the left’s entrenched bureaucratic power structure. By siding with Trump’s decision to dismiss FTC members Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the Court reaffirmed a core principle: that presidents are not figureheads trapped by unelected officials, but leaders entrusted with real constitutional authority. This ruling dismantles a nearly century-old precedent designed to shield bureaucrats from accountability and restores power to where it belongs—with the President elected by the people.
For far too long, Washington has been dominated by unaccountable boards and agencies insulating themselves from democratic oversight. The 1935 Humphrey’s Executor ruling created a false sense of independence that put commissioners of agencies like the FTC above presidential authority. Allowing such insulation from accountability has fueled the rise of the deep state, a bureaucracy more focused on sustaining its own power than serving the American worker or taxpayer. The Court’s ruling finally corrects course and reasserts that no official is untouchable when the people’s will is at stake.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Biden-Appointed FTC Commissioner https://t.co/oT1NIIYL5g
— Steve Ferguson (@lsferguson) September 22, 2025
Predictably, liberal commissioners and their allies in the media are crying foul. Slaughter has raced to TV cameras, warning of so-called “market instability” and dragging Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell into her talking points as though Trump’s rightful exercise of presidential authority means chaos is imminent. But this isn’t instability—it’s accountability. The real instability has been caused by unaccountable officials who treat themselves as kings and queens immune from oversight. Her complaints only reveal a left-wing panic over losing the unchecked power they never should have possessed in the first place.
The dismissal of Bedoya further underscores the left’s fear of facing real evaluations of their performance. Liberals would prefer to enshrine a system where unelected bureaucrats can govern indefinitely, free from being held responsible for their failures or ideological crusades. But in a republic, no official should wield permanent power outside the reach of the voters’ representatives. Trump’s decision, upheld by the Court, re-centers authority where our Founders intended—under the President, who remains directly accountable to the American people at the ballot box.
This victory carries enormous consequences beyond the FTC. It signals the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning with decades of liberal attempts to weaponize independent agencies against elected leadership. Trump’s win ensures that presidents, not bureaucrats, set the course of government policy, as the Constitution designates. The left can clutch its pearls and play the victim, but the message is clear: the President has not only the right but the obligation to rein in rogue bureaucracies. America is stronger when power rests with the people, not with insulated elites desperate to maintain their grip on Washington.
