President Trump moved, without cause, to dismiss the two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. Beyond weakening the FTC’s oversight over big tech, the Trump administration’s broader goal is to overturn long-standing Supreme Court precedent in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States — a ruling that overturned the illegal firing of an FTC commissioner in 1933 and upheld that the President could not remove commissioners of independent agencies like the FTC for political expediency. Trump’s power grab is unlikely to end with the FTC, as he signed an executive order in February seeking to expand the White House’s authority over all federal regulatory agencies.