WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today released the below statement following the Supreme Court's decision allowing President Donald Trump to fire commissioners of the independent Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
"President Trump fired Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya because they had the tenacity to fight monopolists and to protect consumers from predatory corporate abuses. Since then, Trump's obsequious FTC has spent more time engaged in illegitimate harassment of the President and his financial backers' critics than taking on Big Tech or enforcing Made in America rules.
"The Supreme Court has now handed Donald Trump unchecked dominion ove...