I do hope smarter lawyers than I will comment — even to correct me because that’s what it is all about (like the hokey pokey).
I’m making this diary short and something something.
First — The Perv can’t fire Mueller now or on 12/22 or New Year’s Day. He has zero authority to do so. It would be like your boss telling you to eat tofu burgers every day of the week (sorry vegans but really . . . tofus and the word, burger should never be connected).
Here’s a handy reason why the Perv can’t legally fire Mueller directly:
If Trump were Foolish Enough to Fire Mueller. This Philip Bump article provides words and diagrams — simple. There’s a law — a law that Congress passed re; how Special Prosecutors are appointed and “disappointed.”
1. The Racist who occupies the AG’s office recused himself. If he tries to reverse that recusal by firing Mueller he will immediately be reported by thousands for a grievance to disbar him and labelled a liar — which is already a fact. So, next;
2. Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller — that was his job. He has testified just this past week that he has no grounds for firing Mueller — the grounds being
The Attorney General may remove a Special Counsel for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.
Sorry — I’m lazy and went for the wiki reference. Obviously the toadies in Congress who have probably received Russian dark money are going after “conflict of interest” because they can’t find a “violation of Dept. policies” yet. Their argument is worse than watery Cream of Wheat. Do we know who the investigators for Gowdy contributed to or twittered/emailed about? The NYC FBI who love Ghouliania?
3. Rachel Brand has too much integrity to be Bork.
4. I thought Boente wanted nothing to do with this shite so he’s pretty much not Bork. My understanding is that anyone who can be elevated to any of those prior positions needs to be vetted through the normal nomination process — even though the GOP doesn’t do normal;
If the Perv fires the racist elf he then has to go through the nomination process. Even some GOPers won’t have the stomach for a sycophant. Ok, maybe the Perv’s new golf buddy ass kisser Graham.
Sooooo, Mueller, who has more intelligence and guts than the entire administration and GOP congress will most likely ignore a firing and already has one of his staff ready with the injunction filing. His people already comprehend external hard drives and Democratic State AGs.
Next — please stop hair on fire responses to everything the Perv proclaims. He and his criminal enterprise cannot abolish regulations or anything related to National Monuments with the stroke of a pen or the spewing from his mouth.
1. The Administrative Procedures Act controls the creation of and abolition of regulations. Notice in the Federal Register, Comment Period (which the asshole Zinke tried to reduce and lost re: the ancient Native American monuments), Revised or Final Rule then lawsuits. That’s normal. The lawsuits go through the D.C. District Federal Court;
2. There are laws regarding a President’s prerogative to create national monuments. There is zero in the law about a subsequent President or Pervert altering those designations. That’s what courts and/or congress are for;
3. Yes, the Perv and the Congressional toadies are approving incompetent assholes to courts. That is nothing new in this country. What generally can happen is that even conservative assholes don’t want to be contaminated by a noobie incompetent.
Please do not abet GOP fear mongering.
Ok, I’m finished and hope the lawyers here will correct my misperceptions. I’m just waiting for the USPS to deliver the yarn to finish off my pussy hat for the Jan. 20, 2018 march in NYC.