Fired FTC Commissioner Says Her Supreme Court Case Is As Much About Congress as It Is About Trump

Fired FTC Commissioner Says Her Supreme Court Case Is As Much About Congress as It Is About Trump

Rebecca Slaughter (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)Rebecca Slaughter is at the center of a Supreme Court battle that could redefine a president’s power over independent agencies. But the government branch with the most skin in the fight, she says, is the one that’s not involved in her lawsuit: Congress.“There is an imperative for this Congress to reassert its constitutional role,” Slaughter, who President Donald Trump fired from the Federal Trade Commission…