Posted on 03/28/2025 6:36:45 PM PDT by T Ruth
Article II of the Constitution says that “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Under the Constitution, the President is the Executive Branch. But over the years, Congress has tried to encroach on presidential powers in a variety of ways. Congress has created executive agencies, some of them supposedly “independent,” and has tried to insulate them from Presidential control–often, by providing terms in office that are not subject to the president’s power of removal.
At the beginning of his administration, President Trump exercised his Article II authority by firing a number of Executive Branch employees, among them Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, and Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Harris and Wilcox sued to retain their posts, alleging that the president had no statutory power to fire them, and their cases were consolidated.
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a district court opinion and granted the government’s motion for an emergency stay on the ground, inter alia, that the Trump administration is likely to win upon a full hearing of the case. The decision was Per Curiam, but Judge Justin Walker wrote a long opinion explaining the court’s reasoning.
The Court held that the President’s Article II authority includes the power to fire employees of the Executive Branch, including Harris and Wilcox. Walker’s opinion is a ringing explication of the Constitution’s plain language:
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The ONLY way to restore our Free Constitutional Republic AKA MAGA is to reinstate the U.S. Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land as written and originally understood and intended.
As against mighty England in 1776, so now against the mighty $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion for the federal gov’t, may the Hand of the Divine Providence of God Almighty miraculously restore our country and our freedoms delivering us from that which was and is stronger than us but against whom God is stronger.
All praise to God.
Amen
Amen
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The ONLY way to restore our Free Constitutional Republic AKA MAGA is to reinstate the U.S. Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land as written and originally understood and intended.
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Absolutely!
Amen.
I hope we learned a lesson in Wisconsin,the commie-dems came up with 60 million in that race for the state supreme court which controls two seats in the House. We came up with nothing compared to what they did. We need to fund key elections no matter when or where they happen or risk losing our county to the criminals who want to destroy it.
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