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Third GOP Seat On Federal Trade Commission Goes To Former DoJ Attorney During Trump’s First Term

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Mark Meador most recently worked as a visiting fellow at conservative think tank Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center and worked during Trump’s first term as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. The two Democrat-appointee seats remain open while the members Trump recently fired contest his controversial decision.

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Key Takeaways
  • Meador begins a seven-year term through September 2031 after serving as a visiting fellow at conservative think tank Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center.
  • Two seats are vacant on the commission after Trump in February took the controversial action of firing Democrat appointees Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya; both have filed litigation contesting their dismissals.
  • In response to Trump’s regulatory freeze, the FTC on 14 April announced a public inquiry into the impact of federal regulations on competition, with the goal of identifying and reducing anticompetitive regulatory barriers.

Former Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition attorney and Heritage Foundation researcher Mark Meador takes the third Republican-appointee seat at the five-member commission.

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced Meador’s nomination by President Trump on 20 January was confirmed by the Senate on 10 April. “Mark is a brilliant antitrust lawyer who will be...

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