There is no statutory restriction on a president who wishes to fire an FBI Director. The president is quite entitled to do so, and of course should their be wrong doing by an FBI Director that a president still wanted to keep then the Congress can elect to impeach that director, in spite of his favor with a president.
It’s a popular question. Just googling “can the FBI ..” and see what happens. Google finished my inquiry for me. LOL!
“... be fired”.
Clinton fired William Sessions, but Sessions refused to resign. Janet Reno, acting as AG for the president is the one who actually fired him.
It’s easy to find answers on Google when you get scolded for wondering what everyone in the nation is wondering. ha.
I do wonder just why it is Trump keeps him on, unless he wants to see if Congress impeaches him in a bipartisan action?
This topic is just part of the swirling mist of the overall situation where the progressives are desperately trying to keep the embers of their Russian hacking fire from going out, and clearly the Trump faction are pondering whether to go after the high and mighty for the crimes that many suspect they have committed.
If that happens, the situation will be a full-blown crisis but perhaps this is the only way out of the half-century cultural civil war that has slowly turned into a two-nation impasse. The truth shall set us free.
The Russian fables have very little life in them, basically it’s like saying that Putin doesn’t want globalism to overcome the concept of national sovereignty, and the more aggressively this “problem” is pursued, the more obvious it is whose problem it really is (the uniparty’s problem).
But globalists could be just jerks who operate within the law. That has not been the case, we have globalists who are also criminals. So that will need to come out in a full legal process. I can see that Trump is hesitant to go full-bore after the top suspects, but eventually, he will find that it’s either that, or suffer the death of a thousand cuts as the globalists, untouched, keep up their drum beat.
They are more or less daring the administration to come after them. The phrase “too big to fail” comes to mind, some must think they are too big to face the law. But that is not the foundation of the republic. That essential truth needs to be revisited soon.
“There is no statutory restriction on a president who wishes to fire an FBI Director. The president is quite entitled to do so, and of course should their be wrong doing by an FBI Director that a president still wanted to keep then the Congress can elect to impeach that director, in spite of his favor with a president.”
BINGO Rita! That’s perfect.