Trump v. Slaughter · ¶113

Whatever the causes, it didn’t take long for the problem to surface. Just take William E. Humphrey. In 1925, about a decade after giving up his seat in Congress for a failed Senate bid, he landed a job as one of the FTC’s Commissioners. See G. Davis, The Transformation of the Federal Trade Commission, 1914–1929, 49 Miss. Valley Hist. Rev. 437, 445–448 (1962). It seems Humphrey’s primary qualification for the job wasn’t so much his technical expertise as his loyalty to the Republican party then holding the White House, along perhaps with his “close connection[s] with northwestern lumber interests, which had suffered the unfavorable publicity of [an FTC] investigation” in recent years. Id., at 445.

slip opinion, revised 7/07/26
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