FTC Chair Calls ABA ‘Radical’ Advocacy Group Seized by Big Tech

The Federal Trade Commission’s new chairman said he is putting distance between the agency and the American Bar Association, a move that follows the group’s condemning of early actions taken by the Trump administration.

“The FTC’s senior leadership should not lend a patina of nonpartisan legitimacy to an organization guided by the principles of the Democrat Party and the priorities of Big Tech,” Andrew Ferguson said in a letter to staff and published on the FTC website Friday.

Ferguson is prohibiting FTC political appointees from holding leadership roles in the ABA, participating in or attending ABA events, or renewing their ...