By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 2-14-23
The Federal Trade Commission’s only Republican commissioner, Christine Wilson, is resigning “soon,” but has said it is not over policy differences with chair Lina Khan, but instead over what she said was Khan’s “disregard for the rule of law” and the staff Wilson said are enablers of that conduct.
Wilson took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal to say that the chair’s actions made it impossible for her to continue to be part of the agency.
“I have failed repeatedly to persuade Ms. Khan and her enablers to do the right thing, and I refuse to give their endeavor any further hint of legitimacy by remaining,“ she wrote. ”Accordingly, I will soon resign as an FTC commissioner.” » Read More