Acting Attorney General James McHenry has fired more than a dozen career prosecutors from Main Justice citing their work with the Special Counsel Jack Smith targeting of President Trump. This is an exceptionally valuable non-pretending approach toward eliminating the weaponization of the DOJ, the history of the manipulation of the DOJ/FBI serves as the backdrop.
Remember when Robert Mueller spent 2 years investigating the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, and it was later discovered the investigative team (5o FBI agents) knew in January 2017, the Trump-Russia collusion claim was false. Why did those 50 FBI agents remain employed, when it was clear they knew there was no basis for the accusations? The simple non-pretending questions are always the starkest.
That’s the sentiment behind current Acting AG James McHenry, firing the lawyers who worked with Jack Smith. In addition to the fabrication of a prosecutorial predicate, the deployment of Lawfare is not based on factual law. The prosecutors showed their political bias by willingly engaging in a prosecution they understood was without merit.
(WASHINGTON AP) – […] The abrupt termination targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department and is consistent with the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.
Monday’s norm-shattering move, which follows the reassignment of multiple senior career officials across divisions, was made even though rank-and-file prosecutors by tradition remain with the department across presidential administrations and are not punished by virtue of their involvement in sensitive investigations. The firings are effective immediately.
“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” said a statement from a Justice Department official. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda. This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.” (read more)
A President’s power to fire executive branch employees is not plenary.
There are laws, for example the False Claims Act and SOX, that articulate limitations. Whistleblower protections are an example.
The larger concept in play is that the executive branch is charged with enforcing laws (not making them). Executive branch employees are expected, in good faith, to follow the lawful policies of the executive (the President). The present housecleaning, however disruptive, is clearly acting on evidence that large swaths of executive employees acted outside the law and the duties they were charged to perform. See Hunter Biden laptop for an example.
A case can be made that any law transferring constitutional authority from one branch to another is attempting to subvert the constitution outside of the authorized amendment process and is therefore unconstitutional. It should not be necessary to adjudicate but this BS has been going on for a long time and has psychological momentum. What might it look like to live in the USA constitutional republic as founded? Nobody alive today even knows. We have no experience.
Trump is doing what he’s allowed to do – period! Those made-up laws by the democrats are now moot.
And every single one of them should be charged with Sedition….All of them, bar none.
now investigate them because they were hired illegally and had no right being there…..jail for you boys/girls….
Mary McCord in that group??
Smells like it.
Methinks the Trump administration is now acting like the Mad Hatter.
Off with their heads!
Off with their heads!
Figuratively speaking, of course.