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NextGen Joins 40 Consumer Protection and Privacy Groups in Amicus Brief Challenging Trump’s Attempted Firing of FTC Commissioner

Alongside 39 other consumer protection, data privacy, and competition groups from 10 states and the District of Columbia, NextGen joined the effort to submit an amicus brief in Slaughter v. Trump, a case challenging the President’s attempted firing of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. The brief supports Commissioner Slaughter’s reinstatement to the FTC and urges the Supreme Court to uphold nearly a century of precedent protecting members of independent agencies like the FTC from at-will presidential removal without cause.