Rebecca Slaughter
American attorney and FTC commissioner
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Are companies going to be excused from lying and cheating because they’ve donated to the ballroom or to the president’s inauguration? That makes a real difference in whether the economy works for the people or just the powerful,
- said SlaughterGuardiantheguardian.com/us/news…
If the people who adjudicate whether civil service rules are being followed are themselves politically accountable only to the president and removable by the president, then those rules might as well not exist,
- concluded SlaughterGuardiantheguardian.com/us/news…
We had other good Victories, too, and we also had the Birthright Citizenship loss, which we will work to correct in Congress, but the big SLAUGHTER, was SLAUGHTER,
- he said, naming Rebecca Slaughter, the Federal Trade Commission member he fired last year who was at the center of the caseNBC Newsnbcnews.com/politics/supreme…
Fighting for the rule of law, for checks and balances, and for a government that is accountable to the people of the United States and not to the oligarchy is something that is not going to stop being important to me, whatever happens in this case,
- Slaughter told Vanderbilt Law School in AprilThe Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…
Somehow Wall Street is special and gets special treatment, but other than that, the agencies that look out for everyday Americans do not,
- Slaughter said at a news conference MondayCNNcnn.com/2026/06…
- Slaughter saidCNNcnn.com/2026/06…
What we really need from Congress is for members on both sides of the aisle, Democrat and Republican, to reassert their constitutional responsibility to provide checks on an out-of-control executive,
- Slaughter saidNewsmaxnewsmax.com/newsfront/donald…
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