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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSessions may fire McCabe days before his retirement takes effect.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-firing-recommendation-justice-department.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=curRevenge of the Turds
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Sessions may fire McCabe days before his retirement takes effect. (Original Post)
RexCasual
Mar 2018
OP
The ERISA statute makes it illegal to fire people to deprive them of their pensions.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2018
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50 Shades Of Blue
(9,985 posts)1. Hopefully Mueller has a retirement gift for Sessions!
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)2. That will make the FBI more ardent
in their investigation of Trump and his cronies. I mean there is only on guard dog left to protect American Democracy and it is amazing how Trump keeps wanting to poke it in the eye.
dameatball
(7,397 posts)3. What a bunch of A-holes!
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)4. The MSPB would overturn it
McCabe would go right to the Merit System Protection Board and win.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)8. The ERISA statute makes it illegal to fire people to deprive them of their pensions.
Not sure if this applies to federal employees but I'm sure there's something that does.
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)5. He's a fucking sadist
malaise
(268,974 posts)6. Is there anyone on this planet more nasty and vindictive than
Groper Don the Con?
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)7. This appears to be a show-down issue between Trump and Sessions.
Sessions should defy Trump on this. Trump's going to fire Sessions anyhow, so it might as well be over this, I think.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)9. I presume McCabe has an attorney on retainer.
It would be hard to fire him without making it look like retaliation.