Uhhh..that's not what the report says, from my layman's reading. It seems to claim that she violated a statute of the state of Alaska:
Title 39. Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 52. Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act
Section 110. Scope of Code.
Governor Palins firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.
They simply referenced the laws in which the findings where based. The end result finding is what is stated above.
The opinion of the investigator was that she violated some ethical statutes, but that she did not violate the law in firing him. She could fire him just because she woke up cranky that morning. That is her right.
She said,he said. She says she was within her rights to can him.