One-Man Rule
So President Trump has fired a whole host of federal agency Inspectors General without providing either the 30-day notification to Congress or the “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons” why an Inspector General was removed, both of which are, unambiguously, required by law. Josh Blackman asks:
“What is Trump’s justification for not providing the notification? Maybe the restriction can’t be applied to a new President who has just come into office? Does Trump think that the thirty-day clock infringe on his Article II removal power? Is he daring one of the IGs to sue him, to set up a Supreme Court test case?”
Let me respectfully suggest that Josh has overlooked the most obvious answer to the question, which
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