President Trump dismissed Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub from service on Friday following in his series of firings from various government agencies. “Received a letter from… ...

The Chair of the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ellen Weintraub, stated that she received a letter from President Donald Trump requesting her resignation. However, she has refused to step ...

President Trump has the power to restore the Federal Election Commission to a functional body by nominating two Republican ...

President Trump fired Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub on Thursday in a move the Democratic official claims is illegal. Weintraub, who has served as an FEC commissioner since ...

Democrat Shana Broussard formally became the FEC's new chair on Tuesday, taking the reins of a quorum-less agency.

US Federal Election Commission Commissioner and Chairperson, Ellen Weintraub, on Thursday, said she received a letter from President Donald Trump that purports to fire her, adding that the action ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has fired a Democratic ... Republican president reserves the right to “remove employees within his own executive branch.” Trump fired two of the three ...

The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several ...

“You are hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission, effective immediately,” the president wrote in his Jan. 31 memo to the commissioner, who’s chaired the agency for four ...