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Paving The Way For Change

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On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article explaining how a lawsuit filed during the Biden administration will make it easy for President Trump to put his people in strategic positions.

The article reports:

President Joe Biden fought a lawsuit brought by two former government officials appointed during the first Trump administration, contesting the legality of their unceremonious firings. Biden won, paving the way for President-elect Donald Trump to wield executive power that the Democrats will end up wishing he didn’t have.

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and former Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought sought to block their removal from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors in 2021 after Biden took office.

U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that the lawsuit should be dismissed, citing the U.S. Code stating that executive officials are not insulated from presidential removal.

While it’s possible that Spicer and Vought enjoyed their term on the U.S. Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors, Spicer said the lawsuit against Biden had an alternative motive. He wanted to make it easy for Trump, should he become president again, to have the authority to remove Biden’s presidential appointees, even ones who still had time left on their term

…There has been a lot of chatter by Democrats about whether Trump has the authority to fire presidential appointees. Before FBI director Christopher Wray resigned, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin, claimed that Trump couldn’t replace Wray and that he must be allowed to serve his full term, which ended in 2027.

The poetic justice in the incoming Trump administration is amazing.

A Dictator Or A President?

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Yesterday The U.K. Daily Mail reported that President Biden has requested the resignation of 18 Trump-appointed officials who are currently on military academy advisory boards. This is highly unusual as these positions are supposed to be apolitical and have specified terms.

The article reports:

Multiple people appointed to military academy advisory boards by Donald Trump are refusing to resign after the Biden Administration told them to quit or they’d be fired. 

Sean Spicer is one of those axed, and decried the other 17 terminations on his Newsmax show Wednesday.

Spicer hit out as fellow appointee Kellyanne Conway wrote in a tweet that Biden should resign instead, and a third board member Russ Vought –  former director of the Office of Management and Budget – asserted that he would carry out his three-year term. 

The article notes:

He (Sean Spicer) continued, ‘To put this in context. The Biden administration came into office and immediately ordered a stand down and a review for all of the military academies for some unknown still unknown reason. For almost a year we’ve been unable to meet, and then we get this email today. You have to ask why why would they want zero oversight during a challenging period where the academies are dealing with COVID. They’re navigating funding issues.’ 

Spicer then spoke directly to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who named him when addressing the resignations and said the appointees should be qualified and ‘aligned with the values’ of the Biden administration. 

Spicer, a US Navy veteran, responded by saying, ‘When you wear the uniform, you serve the commander-in-chief. We take an oath as officers to the Constitution, not to a party.’

He added, ‘Each of us chooses how we’re going to serve this country. I won’t ever question how anyone chooses to do that. I won’t question how you choose to do that, Jen. But don’t you dare ever minimize or question my service to this nation. You got it?’ 

Note Jen Psaki’s statement, “…appointees should be qualified and ‘aligned with the values’ of the Biden administration. ” Exactly what are the values of the Biden administration?

Obviously lawsuits will be filed, and will will see if the court system will uphold the non-partisan character of the boards involved.

Isn’t this the President that promised to unify the country?