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First Test of #Trump’s #Power to Fire Officials Reaches #SCOTUS
The #SupremeCourt’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies.
#USpol #autocracy #democracy #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/trump-supreme-court-special-counsel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
In the first case to reach #SCOTUS arising from the blitz of actions taken in the early weeks of the new admin, lawyers for #Trump asked the justices on Sunday to let him fire a govt lawyer who leads a #watchdog agency.
The admin’s emergency application asked the #SupremeCourt to vacate a federal trial judge’s order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of #SpecialCounsel.
Dellinger leads an #independent agency charged w/ #safeguarding government #WhistleBlowers & enforcing certain #ethics laws. The position is unrelated to special counsels appointed by the #DOJ.
“This court should not allow lower courts to seize #ExecutivePower by dictating to the president how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will,” the administration’s filing said.
#Trump suggests no laws violated if he ‘saves’ country
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump posted Saturday
The phrase is attributed to #NapoleonBonaparte, who declared himself French #emperor in the early 1800s.
Trump’s post drew quick criticism from Democrats, who argued it was another instance of the president likening his executive authority to #authoritarianism.
#law #SCOTUS #ExecutiveBranch #PresidentialPower #democracy #autocracy
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5148926-trump-post-saving-country/
The Bonaparte background seems uncertain - but one man used this exact sentence for sure:
"Anders Behring Breivik (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɑ̂nːəʂ ˈbêːrɪŋ ˈbræ̂ɪviːk] ⓘ),[5] is a Norwegian neo-Nazi[12] terrorist.[13] He carried out the 2011 Norway attacks in which he killed eight people by detonating a van bomb at Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, and then killed 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in a mass shooting on the island of Utøya.[14][15]"
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@Nonilex Sadly, this will probably go badly for the Special Counsel. It would have been a stronger situation if the OSC were under the MSPB, as originally envisioned. But when the OSC was removed and made independent of the MSPB, it became far more similar to the CFPB in its structure as a single-headed agency, making removal protections far less viable.