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 ...

“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 ...

President Trump has the power to restore the Federal Election Commission to a functional body by nominating two Republican commissioners to fill the two vacant seats, ensuring that the agency can ...

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

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 ...

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

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing an executive order that Democratic Party officials ...