*Making excuses* = minding the law. What part of the fact that a federal agency hire is NOT *fireable* by the President is eluding you? That, would have led to immediate impeachment. Which I suspect that certain folk were avidly hoping for. He would not *look like a hero*, he would be once again tarred and feathered for *letting grandma …
*Making excuses* = minding the law. What part of the fact that a federal agency hire is NOT *fireable* by the President is eluding you? That, would have led to immediate impeachment. Which I suspect that certain folk were avidly hoping for. He would not *look like a hero*, he would be once again tarred and feathered for *letting grandma died, and he knew that granny would die, if only he hadn't ignored The Science™. Notwithstanding the uselessness of demanding he put the toothpaste back in the tube, if you really want to see retributive justice for this coup d'etat, the ONLY way that is going to happen is if he gets back into office. No one else is going to do this.
To an extent, you are right, but those end-runs mostly apply to Congressional procedural rules. Federal agencies, which include the NIAD, are so expansive---~3,000,000 employees---that they quite literally have their own court system to adjudicate complaints, and they rarely, if ever, rule against the employee. The only end-run really open to the President is to go all dictator-y and that has been the favorite smear against Trump, since before he even took office, lol. IF he had tried to fire Fauci, on his own, it would end up in impeachment, and rightfully so, because he would have been taking power that he doesn't have.
*Making excuses* = minding the law. What part of the fact that a federal agency hire is NOT *fireable* by the President is eluding you? That, would have led to immediate impeachment. Which I suspect that certain folk were avidly hoping for. He would not *look like a hero*, he would be once again tarred and feathered for *letting grandma died, and he knew that granny would die, if only he hadn't ignored The Science™. Notwithstanding the uselessness of demanding he put the toothpaste back in the tube, if you really want to see retributive justice for this coup d'etat, the ONLY way that is going to happen is if he gets back into office. No one else is going to do this.
There are always end-runs. Laws? Hahahaha!!
To an extent, you are right, but those end-runs mostly apply to Congressional procedural rules. Federal agencies, which include the NIAD, are so expansive---~3,000,000 employees---that they quite literally have their own court system to adjudicate complaints, and they rarely, if ever, rule against the employee. The only end-run really open to the President is to go all dictator-y and that has been the favorite smear against Trump, since before he even took office, lol. IF he had tried to fire Fauci, on his own, it would end up in impeachment, and rightfully so, because he would have been taking power that he doesn't have.