Federal Trade Commission Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (L) and Alvaro Bedoya (R) sit behind then-FTC Chair Lina Khan in a July 2023 Congressional hearing. Both Slaughter and Bedoya were fired by the Trump administration.

Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, kicked off the Federal Trade Commission this month, say their dismissals were unconstitutional.

The two Democratic Federal Trade Commission members illegally fired by Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit against the president and newly appointed Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as fellow commissioner Melissa Holyoak and executive director David Robbins.