Of course he wants to fire everybody like in the apprentice!
President Donald Trump’s purge at independent agencies is putting a target on a nearly 100-year-old Supreme Court precedent that protects certain officials from the political whims of the White House.
Since taking office four weeks ago, Trump has rapidly fired a member of the National Labor Relations Board, two commissioners charged with enforcing civil rights laws in the workplace and, most recently, the top federal official who handles government workers’ whistleblower complaints.
Some of the officials Trump is targeting enjoy protections in federal law that bar their removal without cause. But many conservatives – including some who sit on the Supreme Court – have chafed at the idea that a president can’t fire people in the executive branch at will.