Summary
A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), citing a 1978 law that allows removal only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.”
Judge Amy Berman Jackson reinstated Dellinger pending a February 26 hearing.
Dellinger called his firing illegal, saying, “The effort to remove me has no factual nor legal basis – none.”
The White House argues the law is unconstitutional, challenging limits on presidential power over independent agencies.
Yet another thing I did not know about myself. I had no idea I thought everyone was out to get me. Because for all 47 years of my life, it never once occurred to me that I thought everyone was out to get me and so I have lived all those 47 years as if I didn’t think everyone was out to get me.
So thank you for setting me straight and telling me that I need to live in fear because I actually believe something I had no idea that I believed.
Please tell me more.