I’m leery of this.
Sure it’s great when we’re in the driver’s seat, but imagine another Obama coming along. He’d take the cleaver to every decent judge he could.
“Sure it’s great when we’re in the driver’s seat, but imagine another Obama coming along. He’d take the cleaver to every decent judge he could.”
No. If he fires them and replaces them with a presidential appointment confirmed by the senate, then the Supreme Court’s ruling doesn’t apply—because the new ones are properly appointed.
Exactly so, Doughty!
This is why all new laws deserve DEEP contemplation before passage. Just look at the ramifications from the execrable 17th Amendment.
This affects administrative law judges only. These are judges (tempted to put the word in scare quotes) who were named by the Swamp. They were never named by any POTUS, and never confirmed by the Senate. IOW, never in the past were they subject to real checks, they are creatures of the bureaucracy they were “judging.”Yeah, I suppose that another Obama could broom all of Trump’s Administrative Law Judges - but there is no reason to suppose that one in ten of them is any better now than what Obama would have named. And there is still the issue of confirmation by the Senate, and the Republicans can’t ram through confirmation of all the normal, constitutional judges as it is. How are they supposed to confirm all these nominees on top of that?
“I’m leery of this.
Sure it’s great when we’re in the driver’s seat, but imagine another Obama coming along. He’d take the cleaver to every decent judge he could.”
That was my immediate reaction to the headline.
We are talking about Administrative Law Judges that set thousands of petty regulations — not real judges.
These are crap judges appointed within and by EPA, Department Labor, etc, and etc. They aren’t really authorized except by the behemoth itself.
These are judges that didn’t go through the President. Appointed by others.
At the very least, it’s a good bargaining chip if the senate doesn’t start approving his judges. Don’t approve my nominations, and I’ll start axing all the libs I can.