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Trump fires prosecutor who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids
PhilipTheBuckethttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/trump-fires-prosecutor-sacramento
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What an idiotic system in which the president can just fire pretty much anyone. Gotta be a special kind of stupid to come up with this.
It’s even dumber than that. He’s firing people illegally, and then scotus comes in and and retroactively says it’s okay.
Or sometimes they say it’s definitely illegal but they’ll let it stand anyway.
SCOTUS will conveniently say “oopsie, I guess those firings were illegal after all”. In the meantime, those people are still fired, Trump still appointed replacements, and those replacements are now protected against being fired if somehow a Democrat accidentally wins the Presidency again….
protected against being fired if somehow a Democrat accidentally wins the Presidency again….
Just as protected as they are right now. If there are no penalties for the firing, and the firing can’t be undone, then is it really illegal? The only thing keeping a Dem president from doing it is a desire to follow the law.
It’s like watching a burglar, in midday, break into a bunch of houses and set them on fire, while the police and firefighters just stand there and say “that’s illegal”
He can’t. The people he is “firing” are straight up rolling over and allowing themselves to get fucked. At this point they deserve whatever they get.
This is the fringe legal theory called unitary executive becoming not so fringe at all. In fact it seems to be headed towards firmly mainstream, precedential status.
Article II, section 1:
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
Everyone used to think this sentence was pretty harmless. It was put in to say there’s one President at the top, instead of an executive committee (which was proposed and debates at the convention).
But to the unitary executive theorists, that one sentence actually means that all of the executive Power must flow through the President, and there can be no executive Power that does not.
The previous thinking is that this power was only talking about the powers specifically listed in Article II, which is not a lot. (Veto, cabinet nominations, pardons, and a few other things). And that if Congress chose to delegate part of its Article I power to the executive branch by passing a law, it could put whatever limitations, checks, and balances it wanted to.
So what you’re saying is unitary executive theory is a fancy name for a dictatorship?
It certainly seems to be going that way. If Trump can just choose not to spend money that Congress appropriated… Well, that’s a lot more power than even George III had when Thomas Jefferson wrote out that listicle of 28 reasons why he sucked.
They didn’t anticipate our level of stupidity
They only anticipated white land lords voting. But then again, that’s exactly who voted for this.
MrVilliamAnd then the people gave this job to the “you’re fired” guy from TV and didn’t think he’d try to fire people. Twice.
JailElonMuskI’m more shocked that there are US attorneys left that still believe in following the law.
Our Supreme Clowncourt is the leg of the table that is truly broken.
Obviously the demented rapist is broken.
Midterms. Midterms. Midterms.
Lefties, get your shit together Right. Now.
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Michele Beckwith is a hero. Everyone should know her name.
“In a 10.57am email on 15 July, Beckwith repeated her message, telling Bovino she expected “compliance with court orders and the constitution”. Less than six hours later, her work computer and cellphone no longer functioning, she received a letter to her personal email account notifying her that she had been terminated.”
Meanwhile, at the FBI:
FBI fires agents who kneeled at protest after George Floyd’s death: Sources
Things the get you fired under Republicans: