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  • Ashley Baker
    • May 18, 2022

One Time Congress Tried to Prevent a President From Firing Someone, It Ended in Impeachment


Members of the U.S. Senate and curious onlookers attend the opening of the trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. The House impeached him for firing the secretary of war without consulting the Senate in violation of a new law. (Photo: Senate Historical Office/KRT/Newscom)

"...'The bill to protect Mueller would not place an outright ban on presidential firing of an executive branch employee, and thus is constitutional,' said Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, a conservative legal group.


'I really don’t see a parallel between this bill and the [1867] tenure of office law, because it doesn’t stop Trump from firing Mueller, who is an executive branch employee,' Levey told The Daily Signal. “If it did, it would be unconstitutional. Congress can set up a path for appeals...'"


Read the full article in The Daily Signal.

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