Is there an end game to all the illegal firings?

[SweetSue92]

By virtue of the act establishing the FEC and the rules it established for replacing a board member.

Who is the head of the FEC? Is that not the executive branch? How does having a "term" mean she can't be fired? Congress has "terms" and they can be recalled. Presidents can be impeached and removed.

IOW

Too bad, so sad

 

[frigidweirdo]

They already have. There is no constitutional justification for making the prez immune from prosecution. The conservatives just made it up.

Actually I think what they did, they did because they wanted to push for Trump, but didn't want to go against the Constitution.

Their ruling was pretty smart in those regards, something they've done with the 2A too. They'll make people think they've said one thing, but actually haven't.

The President is immune from prosecution for doing his job. The Supreme Court are right, the President can't be constantly under threat of being arrested, the job will disappear. That's what impeachment is. Congress is supposed to rule on whether the President is doing something legal or not, rather than a judge. It doesn't stop him from being vulnerable. You just have to understand what it is.

 

[Delldude]

Trump's new religious office is just more government not less.

He's going to merge Church and State.

 

[berg80]

Who is the head of the FEC? Is that not the executive branch? How does having a "term" mean she can't be fired? Congress has "terms" and they can be recalled. Presidents can be impeached and removed.

IOW

Too bad, so sad

The Campaign Legal Center, a legal nonprofit group that deals with voting issues, campaign finance and ethics, released a statement calling the president's firing of Weintraub illegal.

Trevor Potter, its president and the Republican former chair of the FEC, says Trump's move to fire her without a Senate-confirmed replacement is illegal.

"As the only agency that regulates the president, Congress intentionally did not grant the president the power to fire FEC commissioners," wrote Trevor Potter, the founder and president of the CLC and a Republican former chair of the FEC. "Trump is free to nominate multiple new commissioners and to allow Congress to perform its constitutional role of advice and consent. It's contrary to law that he has instead opted to claim to 'fire' a single Democratic commissioner who has been an outspoken critic of the president's lawbreaking and of the FEC's failure to hold him accountable."

 

[pknopp]

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Consider the above chart.
Ok....we have roughly 57 million Citizens eligible for Social Security. By 2050 its expected to grow to 80 million.
Meaning $24k+ per retiree will literally bankrupt the USA. (Baby Boomers)

We need to be extremely careful and efficient with Government spending to survive as a nation as well as pay what was promised.

We do.

The massive firings of non-essential Government employees is an expected part of that process in order to pay both the huge increases in interest expenses and Medicare/Medicaid costs.

Employee's can be cut. Trump can't do it by just creating things out of the blue though.

Things like USAID and the obvious money laundering and grants to politicians and their family members needs to absolutely stop.

I agree. Here is what is going to most likely happen. Trump is going to refuse to do things legally and 4 years from now USAID still exists.

 

[SweetSue92]

Read the OP dumbass

Hey dumbass, you were wrong again

From the article:





Weintraub's six-year term expired in April 2007, but according to FEC rules, that didn't mean she had to leave the commission.

"Commissioners serving expired terms may choose to remain until they are replaced," FEC rules state. The president appoints FEC commissioners, who must then be confirmed by the Senate. However, there is no written provision or language that limits if a president can replace an FEC commissioner before a replacement is appointed.

Weintraub told CBS News that access to her FEC email, computer and cellphone stopped on Friday. She is now listed as a past commissioner on the FEC website.

 

[BluesLegend]

HAHA Democrats, Trump FIRED your ass! Long overdue now exit the people's building you losers.

 

[initforme]

View attachment 1075966

Consider the above chart.
Ok....we have roughly 57 million Citizens eligible for Social Security. By 2050 its expected to grow to 80 million.
Meaning $24k+ per retiree will literally bankrupt the USA. (Baby Boomers)

We need to be extremely careful and efficient with Government spending to survive as a nation as well as pay what was promised.

The massive firings of non-essential Government employees is an expected part of that process in order to pay both the huge increases in interest expenses and Medicare/Medicaid costs.

Things like USAID and the obvious money laundering and grants to politicians and their family members needs to absolutely stop.

Will that $ go back into medicare and Medicaid or will it disappear into the hands of a few?

 

[Moonglow]

He's going to merge Church and State.

And I will go to war to uphold the Constitution from the bastardization of authoritarians and autocrats.

 

[Moonglow]

HAHA Democrats, Trump FIRED your ass! Long overdue now exit the people's building you losers.

Trump can't fire my ass.

 

[Delldude]

And I will go to war to uphold the Constitution from the bastardization of authoritarians and autocrats.

So you're saying you've been asleep at the wheel all these years?

 

[berg80]

Hey dumbass, you were wrong again

From the article:





Weintraub's six-year term expired in April 2007, but according to FEC rules, that didn't mean she had to leave the commission.

"Commissioners serving expired terms may choose to remain until they are replaced," FEC rules state. The president appoints FEC commissioners, who must then be confirmed by the Senate. However, there is no written provision or language that limits if a president can replace an FEC commissioner before a replacement is appointed.

Weintraub told CBS News that access to her FEC email, computer and cellphone stopped on Friday. She is now listed as a past commissioner on the FEC website.

"As the only agency that regulates the president, Congress intentionally did not grant the president the power to fire FEC commissioners," wrote Trevor Potter, the founder and president of the CLC and a Republican former chair of the FEC. "Trump is free to nominate multiple new commissioners and to allow Congress to perform its constitutional role of advice and consent. It's contrary to law that he has instead opted to claim to 'fire' a single Democratic commissioner who has been an outspoken critic of the president's lawbreaking and of the FEC's failure to hold him accountable."

 

[Delldude]

Trump can't fire my ass.

'thwock....thwock'

 

[Moonglow]

So you're saying you've been asleep at the wheel all these years?

Is the state and religion one now, no.

 

[SweetSue92]

By virtue of the act establishing the FEC and the rules it established for replacing a board member.

Did you even read the article?

Her term EXPIRED in 2007. She remained on. He has every right to replace her. Her only leg to stand on is that he has to name a replacement.

GEEZ

 

[Moonglow]

'thwock....thwock'

I am sure it has meaning to yous.

 

[Delldude]

"As the only agency that regulates the president, Congress intentionally did not grant the president the power to fire FEC commissioners," wrote Trevor Potter, the founder and president of the CLC and a Republican former chair of the FEC. "Trump is free to nominate multiple new commissioners and to allow Congress to perform its constitutional role of advice and consent. It's contrary to law that he has instead opted to claim to 'fire' a single Democratic commissioner who has been an outspoken critic of the president's lawbreaking and of the FEC's failure to hold him accountable."

Fun watching all of this transpire....

 

[Lesh]

View attachment 1075966

Consider the above chart.
Ok....we have roughly 57 million Citizens eligible for Social Security. By 2050 its expected to grow to 80 million.
Meaning $24k+ per retiree will literally bankrupt the USA. (Baby Boomers)

We need to be extremely careful and efficient with Government spending to survive as a nation as well as pay what was promised.

The massive firings of non-essential Government employees is an expected part of that process in order to pay both the huge increases in interest expenses and Medicare/Medicaid costs.

Things like USAID and the obvious money laundering and grants to politicians and their family members needs to absolutely stop.

Your numbers are highly suspect.

For instance there are currently just over seventy million on SS.

As the Bany Boomer wave crests, that number will increase… and then decrease

You missed that part

 

[berg80]

Did you even read the article?

Her term EXPIRED in 2007. She remained on. He has every right to replace her. Her only leg to stand on is that he has to name a replacement.

GEEZ

"This is unprecedented. It wasn't contemplated. The statute has a clearly laid out task for replacing commissioners and this wasn't it," she told CBS News. "There has never been a firing. There is nothing in the statute, in the Federal Election Campaign act that authorizes a firing."

You are conflating being fired with being replaced according to the rules.

 

[Delldude]

Is the state and religion one now, no.

Obama made it Islam.