Honestly, how the fuck does he even have the power to try to do this? Like, if the president announced he was firing, say, me from my job at the local bookstore, we would laugh and move on with our lives, because he doesn’t have that power. And if the president announced he was firing his own chief of staff, sure, that makes sense. But what’s with him treating apparently the entire federal apparatus as if it’s his own private business and firing people at will, when I should presume there would be an entire multi-level org chart between him and these people that would not give him the power to directly fire them?
IIRC the supreme court recently decided that federal employees had no protections because firing people for partisan reasons is ok even if their performance is fine
Honestly, how the fuck does he even have the power to try to do this? Like, if the president announced he was firing, say, me from my job at the local bookstore, we would laugh and move on with our lives, because he doesn’t have that power. And if the president announced he was firing his own chief of staff, sure, that makes sense. But what’s with him treating apparently the entire federal apparatus as if it’s his own private business and firing people at will, when I should presume there would be an entire multi-level org chart between him and these people that would not give him the power to directly fire them?
When nobody stops you…
IIRC the supreme court recently decided that federal employees had no protections because firing people for partisan reasons is ok even if their performance is fine
Someone should fire them. Out of a cannon preferably.
This. I don’t understand either.