Is there an end game to all the illegal firings?

[Delldude]

Read this slowly dumbass

Until he nominates a replacement and that replacement has been confirmed by Congress the board member remains

HE HAS NOT DONE SO

All He has to do is appoint an interim acting chair.

 

[mudwhistle]

The links and text show what trump did is illegal. Grow up.

Nope.
The text spells out clearly that her term ended 18 years ago.
She's just been hanging around causing trouble.

 

[Moonglow]

Nobody cares.

Especially nobodies who retort.

 

[okfine]

Do you know how you assure yourself of a job?

Be a racist.

‘Grow up’: Vance, Khanna spar over rehiring DOGE staffer

Attend a diversity seminar? FIRED.

Post outright racist stuff? Well, we can't lose a guy over their beliefs.

And JD Vance goes right along with it and doesn't defend his Indian wife. What a fn sap.

 

[BluesLegend]

Especially nobodies who retort.

You seem starved for attention.

 

[pknopp]

And JD Vance goes right along with it and doesn't defend his Indian wife. What a fn sap.

Sad isn't it. Not only his wife, but his kids.

 

[berg80]

Nope.
The text spells out clearly that her 6 year term ended 18 years ago.
She's just been hanging around causing trouble.

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.

trump can replace her legally. He chose not to.

 

[mudwhistle]

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.

trump can replace her legally. He chose not to.

Sounds like he replaced her.

 

[Delldude]

And JD Vance goes right along with it and doesn't defend his Indian wife. What a fn sap.

Meh.........sixteen year olds say stupid things. That's why they have no adult legal status.

However, the dems want to make them eligible to vote.............

 

[Rawley]

Yeah....facts don't matter to some.

I followed the links the story provided.....and it shows that she has no right to complain. But this is a pattern we've seen from all of these Democrats who think they're untouchable.

They must figure that everyone won't do a background check of the facts.

They start bellowing that Trump is breaking the law.....only to discover that he's not.

Trump is taking a long, long overdue wrecking ball to their world.

 

[Delldude]

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."

He can appoint an interim chair..............

 

[pknopp]

Meh.........sixteen year olds say stupid things. That's why they have no adult legal status.

However, the dems want to make them eligible to vote.............

He wasn't 16 and he seems to be unwilling to apologize for it.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I knew it wouldnt be long before the tooth gnashers started screaming racism.....and here we are.

Because the fat, black women that use whole body deodorant are throwing fits.

 

[Rawley]

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.

trump can replace her legally. He chose not to.

What is the "legal" way Berg?

 

[Dekster]

Here's another to add to the growing list.

Democratic FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub says Trump fired her. She says it's not legal.​

Ellen Weintraub, the current Federal Election Commission Chair and one of three Democratic members on the committee, posted a letter on X Thursday night from President Trump that says she has been removed as an FEC member.

The brief letter, dated January 31, 2025, reads, "You are hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission."

On Thursday night, Weintraub alleged her firing was not legal.

"There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it," she wrote in her social media post. "I've been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon."

Democratic FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub says Trump fired her. She says it's not legal.

Weintraub, one of three Democratic members on the Federal Election Commission, posted a letter from Trump terminating her.

www.cbsnews.com

I just watched her be interviewed about the "firing." She notes the legal way to remove a FEC board member is to replace him or her after their term has expired. In its 50 year history no prez has tried to illegally fired a board member as trump has.

Weintraub's is not the only example of a government official being illegally fired. The list is actually quite long. In most instances they aren't really close calls. The legislative acts creating the agencies established the ways in which members cab be removed. trump is not following those procedures.

So, the end game is..........? I would say trump is attempting to take over all government functions by installing loyalists in all the key positions, while removing anyone who might object to his agenda. The FEC is primarily the agency monitoring campaign contributions. The motivation for having friendly board members seems clear enough. Its mandate calls for the 6 member board to have 3 Repubs and 3 Dems with a D and R rotating as chairman each year. It's designed to be apolitical and therefore is antithetical to Don's desire to politicize everything. Should he get away with it just because he won an election?

I suppose the end game is that MAGA will see him as draining the swamp and ignore the part of the story where the federal courts undo all the stuff they think Trump did.

 

[BluesLegend]

PURGING Democrats from government, these are glorious times.

 

[BluesLegend]

I suppose the end game is that MAGA will see him as draining the swamp and ignore the part of the story where the federal courts undo all the stuff they think Trump did.

In related news the Trump SCOTUS just laughed at your post.

 

[Dekster]

In related news the Trump SCOTUS just laughed at your post.

Surely not. Conservatives have no sense of humor.

 

[berg80]

I suppose the end game is that MAGA will see him as draining the swamp and ignore the part of the story where the federal courts undo all the stuff they think Trump did.

I think the end game is the hope forcing these cases in to the courts will ultimately result in expanding presidential power. Which is the grand design behind virtually everything he's doing.

 

[Delldude]

He wasn't 16 and he seems to be unwilling to apologize for it.

78% approval rating......first amendment guarantees the right to be racist.