Posted on 12/22/2024 10:31:04 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Can President-elect Donald Trump shake up the federal government by firing whoever he wishes on day one of his new administration? Former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer says yes -- and the president-elect can thank Joe Biden firing him for that.
If you can remember back to 2021 -- I know it's difficult, especially if you're Joe Biden -- Spicer was fired along with two other Trump allies who had been appointed to the visitor boards at the Navy, the Air Force and Army academies. (Kellyanne Conway and Russ Vought were the other two, as the Washington Examiner noted.)
All three had time on their three-year terms in the positions -- but no matter, Biden said. They were gone.
Spicer and Vought sued, arguing they had congressionally mandated terms. They lost the suit, with the judge saying in his ruling that "[t]he Supreme Court has consistently held that 'the power of removal from office is incident to the power of appointment' 'absent a specific provision to the contrary.'”
In other words, unless there's specific language in place for the position that prevents the firing, there's no impediment to it.
In an interview, Spicer said this means Trump can essentially clean house in regards to Biden appointees.
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Spicer on his show has chuckled about this repeatedly. The Democrats scored an own goal on this one. They set the precedent which says - yes - Trump can indeed fire everybody on his first day.
Countdown to The Hill posting a worried screed concerned that Trump might actually follow this exact precedent and fire everybody.
There’s only one problem: there are a different set of rules for the Democrats and the Republicans. Moreover, there are a set of rules for Trump and his supporters and a different set for everyone else.
Let’s also not forget how on Day 1 Clinton fired all the US attorneys. Maybe this is standard practice, maybe it isn’t.
Good deal, can’t wait to watch the blood bath.
Does Trump know this?
It is standard practice to remove them as the president determines. Sometimes a DA is so good that presidents doo keep them.
I am surprised they did not discuss the firing of the white house travel office staff during the Clinton administration.
it is
This is why they are trying to pass laws/rules specifically saying Trump can’t fire people - and why the huge CR that failed also tried to make it so that Congressional records cannot be subpoenaed. They want to change the rules now that it’s Trump in office, and they want to hamstring anybody that Trump might put in.
IOW, they are cockroaches who know they are cockroaches and they are scurrying away from the light, right in plain sight for us all to see.
He says that like it's a bad thing.
I think the standard practice is actually for all US Attorneys to submit their resignations at the start of a new presidential term. Then the president can ask some to stay on.
Winning.
on Day 1 Clinton fired all the US attorneys. Maybe this is standard practice, maybe it isn’t.“
It most certainly was not. A few was the norm but because it was a rat it was met with a yawn.
Fire them, hell. I was promised a pyramid of skulls.
That’s also why they’re talking about blanket pre-emptive pardons (even though pre-emptive pardons don’t exist, by definition).
Plan A was to change the rules so Trump can’t get rid of the corruptocrats running everything (see the Hinderaker article about the left’s “we don’t need no steenkin’ President” - my paraphrase)
Plan B was to pass a CR forbidding Congressional records from being subpoenaed, to hamstring anybody Trump would replace the corruptocrats with.
Plan C is to pre-emptively pardon all the corruptocrats so that even if the crimes are found out, it won’t matter. The point of that is to so demoralize the American public that they give up on fighting the people who control everything, and I believe that goes right to the illuminati, WEF, etc. who have used the Jeff Epsteins and Sean Piddy’s of the world to take all of the processes captive.
“Does Trump know this?”
Most likely. If Sean isn’t tight with PDJT, he certainly knows people who are.
Think of what Heracles did to clean out the Augean stables...
Should President Trump.indeed fire all US Attorneys on his first day? Any reason to keep any of the ones Bidens regime had?
On January 20th the Potomac River will run with pink slips and it will be marvelous to behold. The next phase, the dispersal of federal agencies from the DC swamp, will be a joy. Imagine Department of Agriculture bureaucrats actually working and living in farm country and the Forestry and Land Management bureaucracy relocated to the great west. I can’t wait to hear the moans of the swamp creatures.
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