Federal Trade Commission Regulatory Overreach Should Be Trump Administrationâs Next Target

President Donald J. Trump has a dynamic record of repealing government overregulation that has plagued the U.S. for decades .

The focus on deregulation must now target the Federal Trade Commission .

The FTC has long abandoned its historic mandate of not “burdening legitimate business activity” The FTC must modernize its policy on consent decrees and court settlement orders.

President Trump ’s legacy mandates reformation of the FTC as his next challenge. W. Bruce DelValle is a constitutional law, technology law and international law litigator. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law . Del Valle is a native Texan who grew up on the Gulf Coast of Florida , graduated from Penn State University , and worked as a nuclear power engineer prior to graduating cum laude from Washington and Lee University School of Law ..