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As Neal Katyal explained in The Post, a president who wants a special counsel removed has the power to make this happen. The regulations governing the special counsel were promulgated in 1999. These regulations provide that the special counsel can be fired only by the attorney general (or acting attorney general), that any removal must be for cause, and the cause must be provided in writing. Yet the president, as the head of the executive branch, retains the authority to order the attorney general (or, in this case, Deputy Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein) to take such an action."How hard would it be for Trump to get rid of that regulation you spoke of that restricts him from firing the Special Prosecutor? Not an E.O., I hope.
The special counsel law is part of US code
5 U.S. Code § 1212 - Powers and functions of the Office of Special Counsel
(Added Pub. L. 101–12, § 3(a)(13), Apr. 10, 1989, 103 Stat. 19; amended Pub. L. 103–424, § 3(b), Oct. 29, 1994, 108 Stat. 4362; Pub. L. 112–199, title I, § 113, Nov. 27, 2012, 126 Stat. 1472.)
"Such the position is established as a matter of law, the law would have to be repealed by congress.
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