That does not apply.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau directorship is NOT a protected civil service job like Inspector Generals are.
The law struck down did not say a president can fire anyone for any reason, but the SCOTUS only ruled that the limits the law tried to place were too constricting.
The procedure of requiring charges and a hearing before firing of civil servants, has always been upheld by the SCOTUS.
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Firing Inspectors General Begins Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law
Michael J. Kelly | Creighton University School of Law
January 26, 2025 12:25:21 pm
Edited by:
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
(The author, a professor at Creighton University School of Law, argues that Trump's firing of over a dozen inspectors general heralds a dangerous period for the rule of law in America...)
After sundown Friday, a new crack appeared in the wall of America’s rule of law. A wall that protected us for two and a half centuries, but that’s showing signs of strain. It is axiomatic that corrupt governments eliminate those responsible for policing corruption. The
Friday night massacre of over a dozen inspectors general across the executive branch lays the groundwork for taking over that government from within. The job of an agency or department’s Inspector General is to independently root out corruption, fraud, and abuse in the executive branch and report on such to the legislative branch. They are embedded within these agencies to accomplish this task.
This is a modern adaptation to achieving the checks and balances the Framers of our Constitution intended when they created the federal government. But if the designated watchers aren’t watching, because they’ve been purged by the very abuse of power they were installed to prevent, then the way is open for more abuse and corruption to flow. Absent independent institutional whistleblowers, a significant check on power is now missing.
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