Did you say FIRED....?
This does not look good
The rule is to cut up desk with a chain saw....then burn it.
Posted on 09/04/2025 5:48:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire Federal Trade Commission commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, who lower courts ordered reinstated after he terminated her.
Trump wants the Supreme Court to pause her reinstatement as he appeals the case.
"President Trump acted lawfully when he removed Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC," White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement.
"Indeed, the Supreme Court has twice in the last few months confirmed the President's authority to remove the heads of executive agencies," Desai said. "We look forward to being vindicated for a third time — and hopefully after this ruling, the lower courts will cease their defiance of Supreme Court orders."
Trump in March removed Slaughter and another Democratic commissioner, Alvaro Bedoya, as part of a sprawling effort to exert his influence over federal agencies.
Slaughter and Bedoya then sued Trump, seeking to be reinstated. But Bedoya resigned from the FTC in June and dropped his case.
In July, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that Slaughter's firing was illegal.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in D.C., upheld that ruling in a 2-1 decision.
The appeals court held that FTC commissioners cannot be removed unless there is cause, which has been defined as neglect or malfeasance in office.
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People either work for one of the three branches of the Federal Government or they do not. If they work for the Executive branch in senior positions they all answer to the President.
Period.
He can fire them any time he feels like it for any reason or no reason at all.
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“””He can fire them any time he feels like it for any reason or no reason at all.””””
Yup. I don’t like your socks. You’re fired.
Yup. I don’t like your socks. You’re fired.
“I hate the way she licks stamps, I hate her furniture...”
SCOTUS IS not IN CHARGE.
An Equal branch at best.
Certainly not in charge of the Fourth Administrative Branch.
[Congress’ fault...]
Did you say FIRED....?
This does not look good
The rule is to cut up desk with a chain saw....then burn it.
He’s the duly elected President of the United States!
Who the hell are they to “grant permission” to anything?!?
If he acts unlawfully (truly unlawfully, not the Democrats version), then it’s up to congress to remove him from office.
Otherwise, it’s his game and he’s the dealer.
Seriously. That headline makes my skin crawl
Does Trump get to give a thumbs up or thumbs down on who judges hire and fire? If that answer is no, then, well never mind I got caught up in a logical thought.
Never forget it’s the uniparty house/senate over the years that gives these agencies and commissions the money in the first place. Stolen from us taxpayers of course, or put on the national debt.
Trump wanted someone fired. Bessent didn’t do it until Loomer pointed out he hadn’t been fired by Bessent. Bessent put him on administrative leave until Loomer intervened
Need to justify the “cause” for firing Rebecca Slaughter.
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Biden-Harris stooge Loren L. AliKhan
After that do Wickard.
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Another danged foreign stooge appointed by AutoPen Joe’s puppeteers.
“AliKhan’s father was born in India and migrated to Pakistan before coming to the US and settling in Baltimore.”
I hope the Republican party is working now to develop legal challenges to anything any new Democrat does if they steal the next election.
This is ‘Our Sacred Democracy’ in practice: an unelected female Muslim district court judge overruling the President of the United States.
Stooges Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard, both Obama stooges, joined in the ruling reinstating Slaughter. Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, dissented.
Two Benedict Obama stooges versus one Trump judge.
You would think the writers at CNBC should know this basic fact.
Maybe CNBC should fire them for that.
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