Posted on 02/18/2025 11:33:28 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man
On Tuesday Chief Justice Roberts ordered fired Biden holdover Hampton Dellinger to respond to the Trump Administration’s application to the Supreme Court.
Hampton Dellinger must respond by Wednesday.
President Trump on Sunday filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court after corrupt Obama judge Amy Berman Jackson reinstated Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
President Trump fired Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel (not to be confused with a special counsel hired as a federal prosecutor) a couple of weeks ago.
Trump appointed Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to take over Dellinger’s job as the Special Counsel.
Shortly after the firing, Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, issued an administrative stay, and allowed him to keep his job.
“Trump must allow Dellinger to continue to have “access” to the agency’s resources and cannot “recognize the authority of any other person as Special Counsel” while the order remains in effect, Jackson wrote,” according to Politico.
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It mentions Humphrey's Executor v. United States when discussing how Chief Justice Roberts began chipping away at that ruling and might continue to do so.
It looks like Roberts might be tearing down those limits, not further set them. But we'll see what happens with Dellinger.
-PJ
Do you really think Roberts won't toss it out altogether?
Marshall said that the inferior officers who carry out the Executive's directives are speaking for him, so any encroachment on the Executive's power also encroaches inferior officers.
I can see the argument that Congress is creating an "independent" agency within the Executive branch, but I come down on the side that even creating an independent agency violates separation of powers. That's why I hypothesized the President creating his own pick on Congressional committees, even if that Congressman would be "independent" of the Executive.
Presidents like to claim that the Department of Justice is "independent," but AGs like Robert F. Kennedy, Janet Reno, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, and Merrick Garland sure weren't acting like they were independent of the President.
Why didn't Congress create the Department of Justice to be independent in the same way they created later departments? My guess is that by 1935 the Progressives had taken over the government (the 1913 amendments) and started pushing the boundaries of past practices. These so-called "quasi-legislative" and "quasi-judicial" officers seem like a poke in the eye to separation of powers. We have one legislature and one judiciary; there is no room for any quasi- in the Executive branch; that's just a foot in the Executive's door by the legislative branch.
-PJ
Watch Mexican soap operas and you’ll realize it’s the natural habitat of blondes. ;).
In reality I agree, plus I think he’s light in the loafers.
From there - if they agree to hear the case but issue an Order that Dillinger can remain in his position, that would be interesting.
Or they agree to hear the case but the TRO and no injunction is issued. That would seem to signal the further limiting of Humphrey’s
Or they decide not to hear the case and the TRO expires.
After doing some reading, I would predict 1 or 3.
As an aside I never understood Sean Spicer’s case when he got booted from the Naval Academy Board of Visitors given the times we are in now. One thing seem certain, when a Democratic President again takes office, I would expect political appointees to be fired and removed within the first month with few exceptions. It’s a different era.
Anything Amy Berman Jackson does is corrupt.
She worked with corrupt Muller prosecutor Andrew Weissman to frame roger stone.
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