Posted on 09/24/2018 12:04:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Were Rod Rosenstein to resign as deputy attorney general, the Department of Justice’s rules of succession dictate that Solicitor General Noel Francisco would assume his post, pending President Donald Trump appointing someone outside the rules of succession.
Francisco is currently the third-highest ranking official in the Department of Justice and would take over supervision of the Robert Mueller-run special counsel investigation, which has been ongoing since May 2017. Francisco would hypothetically have the authority to fire Mueller and end the investigation, were he to assume the new position.
Francisco has rock-ribbed conservative credentials. He is a veteran clerk of late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia and worked for the George W. Bush legal team during the Florida recount and the Bush White House as associate counsel to President Bush. Francisco worked for the Department of Justice in the Bush administration before moving back to private practice, where he argued multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
Interestingly, Francisco is no fan of special counsels and is a firm advocate for the president’s constitutional power to shape the bureaucracy around him. He rebuked the vast investigative authority of “career prosecutors” looking into presidential administrations and has argued before the Supreme Court that the president has the authority to directly hire-and-fire every federal official who are behaving in a “subordinate” manner.
Francisco wrote, “The Constitution gives the president what the framers saw as the traditional means of ensuring accountability: the power to oversee executive officers through removal. The president is accordingly authorized under our constitutional system to remove all principal officers, as well as all ‘inferior officers’ he has appointed.”
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It is frustrating why Rod R. has not been fired already.
I’m excited.
Thursday is likely to be quite the day.
There is probably a plan in the works that include waiting to fire Rosenstain. Timing
Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself.................
Optics for the Midterms.
RR resigning was carried with a line that he would otherwise be fired.
Bringing him to the Oval Office and accepting his resignation formally will quell any talk that he was fired.
So there will be no ‘red line’ crossed.
Sounds like a SCJ in training - he’ll probably get the Alberto Gonzalez treatment from the RATs ...
Noel Francisco was from the beginning brought in for this purpose.
On March 7, 2017, the White House announced Francisco’s nomination to the position of Solicitor General. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 50–47 on September 19, 2017.
With the resignation of Rachel Brand as Associate Attorney General on February 8, 2018, Francisco became the third-ranking official in the Justice Department.
This is why Brand was dismissed so that Francisco would succeed RR.
Don't be, there's already a letter in the hand of Feinswine that claims Francisco copped a feel on his 11th grade girlfriend in the back row of a movie theater who was so traumatized that she is now residing in a convent and has changed her name to Anonymous........
Trump is a MASTER at the press he right now is covering Kavanaugh false accusations, he is putting this meeting with Rosenstein on Thursday I LOVE THIS POTUS!!!! He has been down this road with the Dems and press HE WON!!! He will do whatever he can to get this man confirmed AND he will win!!!
Francisco has rock-ribbed conservative credentials. He is a veteran clerk of late Supreme Court... ...........................No mater, a Mary Jane will claim he winked at her in 5th grade, and that’s all they need to disqualify him.
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Don’t fire Rosenstein, just demote him.
Since he’s already confirmed, can he be directly promoted to AG?
Have you noticed that you never see him and Harold Ramis in the same place...?
With all these saintly women courageously destroying the careers and reputations of men on the Right, the Dem voters will have a hard time in the voting booth seeing the Dem names through all the tears welling up. Barf.
Imagine a day where Rosenstein and then Muller are summarily fired, Ford humiliates herself and Kavanaugh is confirmed. In the span of 1 workday, we could watch a red wave rise like the Phoenix.
Realistically, I’d settle on Mueller’s firing and Kavanaugh’s confirmation by dinner time Friday. :-)
The SG was one of the speakers at a recent Federalist Society luncheon on the new Supreme Court term. I like the idea of promoting him.
When Rosenstein arrives to meet POTUS Trump on Thursday I assume the Secret Service will frisk him for Weapons and Recording Devices.
Is it true that Rosenstein is having an Affair with Omarosa?
I was having a session with my Therapist and that came to me while under Repressed Memory Hypnosis.
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