Phyllis Fong had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday, saying that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said.

In an email to colleagues on Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, she said the independent council of the inspectors general on integrity and efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time”.

  • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    You want our current judiciary system to have the power to nullify the presidents power? How is that a proper checks and balances approach?

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      9 hours ago

      I get you but there needs to be some limit to presidents sending out executive orders that exceed their power. This already has a precidence it would simply add that if presidents flood the system with executive orders that result in suits that they stop making them till adjucated. I do hate the idea but I see no other way to balance abuse like this.

      "President Harry Truman’s Executive Order 10340 placed all the country’s steel mills under federal control, which was found invalid in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 US 579 (1952), because it attempted to make law, rather than to clarify or to further a law put forth by the Congress or the Constitution. Presidents since that decision have generally been careful to cite the specific laws under which they act when they issue new executive orders; likewise, when presidents believe that their authority for issuing an executive order stems from within the powers outlined in the Constitution, the order instead simply proclaims “under the authority vested in me by the Constitution”. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order#History_and_use