The president has tried to assert unprecedented control over independent, bipartisan bodies like the Federal Trade Commission.

The firings of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter directly challenge the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1935 decision Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, legal experts said.

The two remaining Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have been fired, they announced on social media Tuesday. | Both remaining Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission were fired Tuesday.