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October 29, 2024
Bilal Sayyed spoke with Law360 about how the Federal Trade Commission's Republican minority plans to use its position to force compromise in the Democrat-led agency's actions in an article, "7 Months, 11 Dissents: GOP Minority Flexes Muscles At FTC."
As the article reports, the FTC's two relatively new Republican members, Andrew N. Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak, "are starting to show how they'll use their minority position to full advantage. Sometimes they've fully signed on to the Democratic majority, other times they've dissented emphatically. And the GOP members showed something new this month when approving a dramatic overhaul to the agency's merger filing rules: forcing their colleagues to compromise."
Bilal, a former head of the agency's Office of Policy Planning, suggested Ferguson and Holyoak are willing to bring a high volume of cases. "But they'll need to be grounded in the law," he said, arguing the Democrat-led FTC's actions have not been as grounded.
Read the full article here.
