Posted on 02/21/2025 12:06:05 PM PST by EBH
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Feb. 20 that it has determined that multiple layers of removal restrictions shielding administrative law judges are unconstitutional and that it will no longer defend them in court.
Administrative law judges (ALJs) preside over administrative disputes in the federal government and are appointed by the heads of executive agencies.
Chad Mizelle, the DOJ’s chief of staff, said in a statement that “unelected and constitutionally unaccountable ALJs have exercised immense power for far too long.”
“In accordance with Supreme Court precedent, the Department is restoring constitutional accountability so that Executive Branch officials answer to the President and to the people,” Mizelle said.
The policy shift was outlined in a letter from Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris to Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), which was posted by Mizelle on social media platform X.
The president may not “be restricted in his ability to remove a principal [executive] officer, who is in turn restricted in his ability to remove an inferior [executive] officer,” Harris wrote in the letter.
ALJs operate separately from judges who preside over federal courts and who are known as Article III judges for the section of the U.S. Constitution that established the judiciary.
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Trump is eviscerating the Deep State, piece by slimy, corrupt, entitled piece.
Good.
Supreme Court needs to rule on these inferior court (state) federal judges who have been overstepping their jurisdiction for the last 20 yrs. It’s totally absurd.
I don’t speak much legalese, but this sounds like a step in the right direction.
hopefully pam bondi should be putting the squeeze on these activist judges any day now...
The whole freaking Administration State is utterly unconstitutional.
NUKE IT NOW!!!!
yep, the entire executive bureaucracy was built by the socialist FDR to permanently entrench leftists in key executive departments to thwart the will of any future president to undo what he did.
And every president since then has just gone along with it because they were all uniparty piece of crap.
I was hoping Trump was waiting until Patel was confirmed before he got serious about moving in the whack a mole Judges. This news hitting the day after is a good sign indeed.
I assume Bondi appreciates Patel’s help.
Trump is eviscerating the Deep State, piece by slimy, corrupt, entitled piece.
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Yes, he and his team are doing just that.
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Trump is eviscerating the Deep State, piece by slimy, corrupt, entitled piece.
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