Image: People rally in Houston for a June 14, 2025 “No Kings” protest against US President Donald Trump’s policies.  (Photo by Brett Wilkins/Common Dreams)

Brett Wilkins of Common Dreams reports: “The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld President Donald Trump’s firing of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, overturning 90 years of precedent and giving the chief executive what dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor called “a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted.”

Last March, Trump fired Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the two Democratic FTC commissioners at the time, without cause in what critics called yet another illegal abuse of power by the twice-impeached convicted felon…”

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