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unethical_banlast Thursday at 3:05 AM1 replyview on HN

>To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

So yes, Congress has wide leeway to create agencies to administer particular executions of laws passed by Congress and signed by the President.

Furthermore, we don't have untouchable officials. What does that hypothetical have to do with anything?

The heads of these agencies that Trump is removing are protected from being fired immediately, fired without Congressional notification, and from being fired without cause.

Rank-and-file civil servants are protected from being fired unrelated to performance precisely so we don't revert to the patronage systems of the 1800s.


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grandempirelast Thursday at 6:25 AM

> Rank-and-file civil servants are protected from being fired

That cannot be true. They do not get a lifetime claim to the treasury which is not revocable by elected officials.

The members of the executive branch work for the chief executive.

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