{"id":16332,"date":"2018-06-22T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16332"},"modified":"2018-06-22T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T20:47:16","slug":"power-grubbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/22\/power-grubbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Grubbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCOTUS<\/strong><\/em> is once again avoiding the big issues in Lucia vs. SEC<\/em>, where they ruled that the SEC judges are improperly selected, and David Savage in the Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/em> explains<\/a> the issue that was avoided:<\/p>\n

But his case reopened a profound dispute over the chief executive\u2019s power to control and remove officials throughout the U.S. government. Since the late 19th century, Congress has extended civil service protection to the vast number of federal employees. Some top appointees are also protected from firing except for \u201cgood cause.\u201d They include Mueller, who under the regulations can be removed by Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein only for \u201cmisconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest or other good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usually, administration lawyers defend federal agencies like the SEC in matters before the high court. But in this case, Trump\u2019s lawyers switched sides and urged the justices to rule against the SEC and say the president has the authority to \u201cremove\u201d all officers of the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Constitution gives the president what the framers saw as the traditional means of ensuring accountability: the power to oversee executive officers through removal,\u201d Solicitor Gen. Noel Francisco told the court in February. \u201cThe president is accordingly authorized under our constitutional system to remove all principal officers, as well as all \u2018inferior officers\u2019 he has appointed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Firing at anyone will sounds like a power trip to me – and may unduly influence folks who need to be politically neutral in their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTUS is once again avoiding the big issues in Lucia vs. SEC, where they ruled that the SEC judges are improperly selected, and David Savage in the Los Angeles Times explains the issue that was avoided: But his case reopened a profound dispute over the chief executive\u2019s power to control \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16333,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332\/revisions\/16333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}