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Groper Don the Con cannot fire Comey (Original Post)
malaise
Mar 2017
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still_one
(92,495 posts)1. The President can fire Comey
malaise
(269,269 posts)2. Doesn't he have a ten year appointment? n/t
The adequate clause may give the Con problems
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)3. He does, but the POTUS can still fire him if he chooses.
He serves at the pleasure of the president!
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)4. I know what you mean, but that phrase?
Ewwww
BumRushDaShow
(129,936 posts)6. As post #3 indicated
he can fire him and under normal circumstances, doing so would be a P.R. nightmare a la Nixon. But with this joker, nothing touches him no matter how insane.
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It is sometimes assumed that the President can oust an FBI director only for cause that is, for some misconduct in office. But, as a Congressional Research Service study of the directors office pointed out two years ago, there are no statutory conditions on the Presidents authority to remove the FBI director.
The constitutional reality is that, if a government official is clearly placed within the Executive Branch, that official serves at the pleasure of the President, and can be fired at will. That history has had a recent illustration: earlier this month, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., struck down part of a law by which Congress created a single director to lead the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau a law that specified that the director could be removed by the President only for cause.
The appeals court simply deleted that phrase from the law, thus making the agencys head subject to being fired by the President for any reason, or no reason at all. (The government has not yet indicated whether it will challenge that ruling in further appeals, perhaps to the Supreme Court.)
That is very much in line with what the Supreme Court has ruled over the years, to preserve the power of the President to be fully in charge of the Executive Branch. Since 1968, a federal law has provided that the head of the FBI will have a 10-year term in office. But the situation legally is that the chance to serve a full term depends upon retaining the confidence of the President.
http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2016/10/how-independent-is-the-fbis-director/
It is sometimes assumed that the President can oust an FBI director only for cause that is, for some misconduct in office. But, as a Congressional Research Service study of the directors office pointed out two years ago, there are no statutory conditions on the Presidents authority to remove the FBI director.
The constitutional reality is that, if a government official is clearly placed within the Executive Branch, that official serves at the pleasure of the President, and can be fired at will. That history has had a recent illustration: earlier this month, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., struck down part of a law by which Congress created a single director to lead the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau a law that specified that the director could be removed by the President only for cause.
The appeals court simply deleted that phrase from the law, thus making the agencys head subject to being fired by the President for any reason, or no reason at all. (The government has not yet indicated whether it will challenge that ruling in further appeals, perhaps to the Supreme Court.)
That is very much in line with what the Supreme Court has ruled over the years, to preserve the power of the President to be fully in charge of the Executive Branch. Since 1968, a federal law has provided that the head of the FBI will have a 10-year term in office. But the situation legally is that the chance to serve a full term depends upon retaining the confidence of the President.
http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2016/10/how-independent-is-the-fbis-director/
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)5. Of course, he can. Have you forgotten the calls for Obama to fire him?
BainsBane
(53,116 posts)7. He can
It might not help him though.
malaise
(269,269 posts)8. Thanks all
This should require more popcorn now