President Trump dismissed Federal Election Commission ... “Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of @FEC. There’s a legal way to replace FEC ...

The Chair of the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ellen Weintraub, stated that she received a letter from President Donald Trump requesting ... to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of ...

Sean Cooksey, a Trump-appointed commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (FEC), announced Monday that he would be resigning on President-elect Trump’s first day in office.

Neither Trump nor his administration have shared any efforts to nominate Weintraub’s replacement. As of Saturday, Weintraub is no longer listed as the current commissioner on the FEC website.

Commissioner Allen Dickerson, a Republican, announced his decision to step down effective Wednesday evening at the FEC’s meeting earlier in the day. He was nominated by President Trump and ...

Weintraub agreed and said in her filing, “The president may opine on any of the myriad legal issues faced by the FEC ... “President Trump’s choice to remove Commissioner Weintraub undermines ...

Additionally, Weintraub’s attorneys noted that Trump can now easily skew the FEC’s bipartisan structure by removing another Democratic commissioner and then filling the empty Republican seat ...