The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies.

The statute that created the job now filled by Mr. Dellinger, who was confirmed by the Senate in 2024, provides for a five-year term and says the special counsel “may be removed by the president only for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” But a one-sentence email to Mr. Dellinger on Feb. 7 gave no reasons for terminating him, effective immediately.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    111·
    4 days ago

    SCOTUS has laid their position on this out when Biden was president.

    5-4 6-3 the president can do what they want if it is an official act.

    To an ignorant serf like me it looks like they have no room to maneuver here without undoing their previous ruling.

    • Jhex@lemmy.world
      71·
      4 days ago

      Why would they want to undo it? Their king god is POTUS now… if there is ever a non trumptard president, maybe they’d be tempted to undo it, but that is not the case today