Posted on 08/31/2017 3:30:08 AM PDT by C19fan
There is a con law question that I am not prepared to answer.
If law requires the law to be repealed before Trump can fire on his own as indicated by the guy who wrote the law...does POTUS have right under Con law.
I am too busy with gold to flesh out the answer..I lean to yes, though.
But Neal Katyal, a partner at the firm Hogan Lovells and former Acting Solicitor General who wrote the special counsel regulations almost two decades ago, says that ultimately, Trump has the constitutional authority to fire who he wants, and the power to repeal the regulations.
“Our Constitution gives the president the full prosecution power in Article II; accordingly, any federal prosecutor works ultimately for the president,” Katyal wrote in the Washington Post last month. “That constitutional reality is not something we could write around with a regulation.”
http://time.com/4816190/donald-trump-robert-bob-mueller-russia-special-counsel/
It looks like POTUS CAN fire Mueller as a matter of Con law as per the guy who wrote the law. Don’t know if this is the article that gave me the idea that he said trump could fire Mueller..but it shows that it what he thinks as per Con law.
http://time.com/4816190/donald-trump-robert-bob-mueller-russia-special-counsel/
No one agrees with you including congress. They specifically blocked a recess just to avoid having Trump remove Sessions and recess to get rid of Mueller.
The author of the law agrees with me
http://time.com/4816190/donald-trump-robert-bob-mueller-russia-special-counsel/
Article II
SCOTUS should agree if it makes it there..but you never know with SCOTUS
This is not easy to answer with yes or no. At the initial outset when I knew he was being investigated my initial nature was to come to his defense. I assumed he was innocent.
After months passed, I began to suspect he was not innocent but still had doubts. I began the process of splitting up our business ties but still remained friendly.
When I was called to be a witness I then obtained a deeper understanding of what was done and at that point terminated any contact.
So, yes I discontinued business with him but it was not immediate it was over time as events unfolded to me. With hindsight I should have terminated all contact at the outset but that is difficult when its someone you knew personally for decades.
Btw, Article II gives him the right to fire Mueller..but it doesn’t stop it from possibly being obstruction of justice
See nixon.
Thus one work around was to try to get someone else to do it..thus firing Sessions...which Congress prevented.
If he had tried to do this he could have still been on the hot seat for obstruction
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