Stanley Brand appears on Dan Abrams’s Sirius radio program

CARLISLE, Pa.—Professor Stanley Brand, Distinguished Fellow in Law and Government at Penn State Dickinson Law, was interviewed on Dan Abrams’s Sirius radio program on December 8, 2025, about the Supreme Court oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter, the case challenging the firing of a Federal Trade Commission commissioner.

The case represents a major separation of powers case over the president’s power to remove independent agency heads that Congress has provided may only be terminated for cause. The administration is trying to overturn a 1935 Supreme Court case involving the FTC that protected a commissioner from removal.

Professor Stanley M. Brand is the On-site Director of Dickinson Law’s Semester-in-Washington D.C. Program. With over thirty years of experience, Professor Brand offers students a particularly sharp insight into federal regulatory and legislative practice in Washington, D.C. He is the former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives and chief legal officer responsible for representing the House, its members, officers, and employees in connection with legal procedures and challenges to the conduct of their official activities; former Senior Counsel in Akin Gump’s litigation practice in Washington, D.C.; and Vice President, National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the governing body of minor league baseball). He is a co-author, with Professor Lance Cole, of a casebook on Congressional Investigations. With over thirty years of experience, Professor Brand offers students a particularly sharp insight into federal regulatory and legislative practice in Washington, D.C.