As it turns out, firing the head of the Office of Special Counsel was illegal.

[berg80]

A federal judge ruled Saturday that President Donald Trump’s firing of a federal workforce watchdog was illegal — teeing up a Supreme Court showdown over the president’s claim to nearly absolute control of the executive branch.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that Hampton Dellinger — confirmed last year as head of the Office of Special Counsel — may continue to serve his five-year term despite Trump’s effort to remove him from the post via a brusque email last month.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/01/judge-rules-trumps-firing-of-federal-workforce-watchdog-was-illegal-00206877

Let's look a this from the standpoint of what is best for the country.

Jackson ruled that Dellinger’s duties, which include holding executive branch officials accountable for ethics breaches and fielding whistleblower complaints, were meant to be independent from the president, making the position a rare exception to the president’s generally vast domain over the executive branch.

Doesn't it make sense for someone in a position of "holding executive branch officials accountable for ethics breaches and fielding whistleblower complaints" should only be able to be removed for cause. I mean, what's the point of having a gatekeeper in charge of preventing unethical behavior on the part of the executive branch if he or she can be fired for doing their job?

The same question can be asked of DoJ officials and FBI agents. Doing your job, no matter who it relates to, should never result in being fired. The subject of investigations should not have the power to fire the investigators. Surely we can agree on that.

 

[DonGlock26]

"U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson Rules the Bureaucracy Controls the Executive Branch, Not the President​

https://theconservativetreehouse.co...trols-the-executive-branch-not-the-president/
March 2, 2025 | Sundance |
Not unexpectedly, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ruled that unelected bureaucrat, Hampton Dellinger, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel head has more unilateral power within the executive branch of government than President Donald Trump. [RULING pdf HERE]



This ruling stems from the same mindset as former AG Bill Barr, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy AG Sally Yates, former IC Inspector General Michael Atkinson, and the entire organization of professional Lawfare activists that includes Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen. The collective belief is that in the modern “continuity of government” framework, the bureaucracy of government controls things, not the elected and plenary President.

Basic constitutional civics has been destroyed in the modern era by progressive advocacy saying the executive branch is an omnipotent organism that is not controlled by the duly elected President of the United States. Current Lawfare activists and activist judges seek to retain this bastardized view of constitutional government.

Let us hope the Supreme Court finally puts an end to decades of this ridiculous nonsense. The earlier ruling in the Presidential Immunity decision indicates SCOTUS is positioned to do exactly that."


The Left's favorite Obama appointed judge comes through for the Deep State again.

 

[berg80]

Not unexpectedly, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ruled that unelected bureaucrat, Hampton Dellinger, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel head has more unilateral power within the executive branch of government than President Donald Trump.

That is ludicrous. The position Dellinger holds was set up to be independent in anticipation of exactly what trump is doing. Firing the gatekeepers preventing his form of corruption.

 

[Polishprince]

The DOJ is part of the executive branch and Mr. Dellinger is an underling who reports to the head of the Executive Branch, Donald J. Trump.

There is no 4th branch of government, Judge Amy doesn't have the legal brains to try a Mattress Tag defacers here in Pennsylvania.

 

[DonGlock26]

That is ludicrous. The position Dellinger holds was set up to be independent in anticipation of exactly what trump is doing. Firing the gatekeepers preventing his form of corruption.

Is he part of the executive branch?

 

[j-mac]

Another liberal judge misusing the bench. Congress should be busy as hell the next 4 years impeaching these political hacks from our judiciary.

 

[DonGlock26]

Another liberal judge misusing the bench. Congress should be busy as hell the next 4 years impeaching these political hacks from our judiciary.

The SCOTUS will have to strip them of their lawfare powers.

 

[Mac1958]

Are laws still a thing with this administration?

 

[struth]

That is ludicrous. The position Dellinger holds was set up to be independent in anticipation of exactly what trump is doing. Firing the gatekeepers preventing his form of corruption.

Isn’t it a DOJ position?

 

[Polishprince]

Isn’t it a DOJ position?

Even if it isn't, its still part of the Executive Branch as an "independent" agency, not responsible to the head of the cabinet department. The bureaucracy isn't a 4th branch of government.

 

[scruffy]

Isn’t it a DOJ position?

It is absolutely a DOJ position, and this thread is another dangerously stupid leftard psy-op by commieberg.

 

[struth]

It is absolutely a DOJ position, and this thread is another dangerously stupid leftard psy-op by commieberg.

Does the US Constitution, Art 2 Section 1 vest the power of the executive in A President?

Not in a President and whoever else Congress thinks should get it?

 

[berg80]

The DOJ is part of the executive branch and Mr. Dellinger is an underling who reports to the head of the Executive Branch, Donald J. Trump.

That is not how Congress designed the position to be when the law creating was passed.

Dellinger’s “independence is inextricably intertwined with the performance of his duties,” Jackson wrote in a 67-page opinion. “The elimination of the restrictions on plaintiff’s removal would be fatal to the defining and essential feature of the Office of Special Counsel as it was conceived by Congress and signed into law by the President: its independence. The Court concludes that they must stand.”

 

[berg80]

Are laws still a thing with this administration?

Only when they aren't inconvenient to its goals.

 

[Polishprince]

That is not how Congress designed the position to be when the law creating was passed.

Dellinger’s “independence is inextricably intertwined with the performance of his duties,” Jackson wrote in a 67-page opinion. “The elimination of the restrictions on plaintiff’s removal would be fatal to the defining and essential feature of the Office of Special Counsel as it was conceived by Congress and signed into law by the President: its independence. The Court concludes that they must stand.”

Its "independence" from the DOJ, its not not a separate, unelected branch of government answerable to no one- like this glorified Notary Public inferred in her bullshit decision.

 

[berg80]

The SCOTUS will have to strip them of their lawfare powers.

You folks are over using the word lawfare out of ignorance and intellectual dishonesty. Lawfare is what kept trump out of prison.

 

[Auld Phart]

A federal judge ruled Saturday that President Donald Trump’s firing of a federal workforce watchdog was illegal — teeing up a Supreme Court showdown over the president’s claim to nearly absolute control of the executive branch.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that Hampton Dellinger — confirmed last year as head of the Office of Special Counsel — may continue to serve his five-year term despite Trump’s effort to remove him from the post via a brusque email last month.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/01/judge-rules-trumps-firing-of-federal-workforce-watchdog-was-illegal-00206877

Let's look a this from the standpoint of what is best for the country.

Jackson ruled that Dellinger’s duties, which include holding executive branch officials accountable for ethics breaches and fielding whistleblower complaints, were meant to be independent from the president, making the position a rare exception to the president’s generally vast domain over the executive branch.

Doesn't it make sense for someone in a position of "holding executive branch officials accountable for ethics breaches and fielding whistleblower complaints" should only be able to be removed for cause. I mean, what's the point of having a gatekeeper in charge of preventing unethical behavior on the part of the executive branch if he or she can be fired for doing their job?

The same question can be asked of DoJ officials and FBI agents. Doing your job, no matter who it relates to, should never result in being fired. The subject of investigations should not have the power to fire the investigators. Surely we can agree on that.

I just found a job that disagrees with Trumps actions, says what he's doing is WRONG!

she's my newest hero.

 

[pknopp]

The judiciary can read and comprehend laws. MAGA can't.

 

[DonGlock26]

You folks are over using the word lawfare out of ignorance and intellectual dishonesty. Lawfare is what kept trump out of prison.

Is the Left over using the words "nazi" and "dictatorship"?

 

[struth]

That is not how Congress designed the position to be when the law creating was passed.

Dellinger’s “independence is inextricably intertwined with the performance of his duties,” Jackson wrote in a 67-page opinion. “The elimination of the restrictions on plaintiff’s removal would be fatal to the defining and essential feature of the Office of Special Counsel as it was conceived by Congress and signed into law by the President: its independence. The Court concludes that they must stand.”

Congress can’t design a law that is repugnant to the Constitution

Are 2 section 1 states clearly who and who alone has executive power. Congress can’t give some of it to someone else