Proving that history does repeat itself, in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to fire an FTC commissioner over ideological disagreements. In that case, called Humphrey’s Executor, the court unanimously held that while the president has the power to remove purely executive officers for any reason, that unlimited power does not extend to agencies like the FTC, whose duties “are neither political nor executive, but predominantly quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative.”
Following that 1935 decision, Congress went on to create many more multimember, independent agencies whose members likewise can only be removed for cause. Since January, Trump has also removed Democratic members from some of those agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The person replacing him would have to be as popular as he is. Who would that be? Johnson, Vance or Miller? There’s no one legally or illegally that could replace him.
I mean its kinda nuts that he is that popular given his actions. As long as they rally under one instead of fight for the position the project will likely keep going.
I disagree. The r’s lost a position that had been republican since the civil war this last election. There’s a reason so many r’s are freaking out.
well yeah as long as people keep up the fight. thier biggest thing now is to get people to give up. We need a massive house cleaning and shoring up of the ability to enforce the law on the enforcers. We really need some congressional and court run departments to make sure the executive is following the law.