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.
that could be a detriment though. There was some indication they did not want to kill hitler so much because he was an idiot and his replacement could be worse war wise. Similarly trump is a kinda useful idiot and there are certainly puppeteers who will through another in his place. The real thing comes down to if the people fight this shit 100% which requires right and maga types waking up to some degree and ultra left fighting it even if its a compromise for now.
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.