Mr. Barr is what Surfaces when SCOTUS Tampers with Our Constitution

Article II, Section 4, says the following:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

We tend to focus on the presidency but it's all civil officers who are subject to impeachment. The Constitution says nothing about giving the president the power to remove anyone he chooses; yet SCOTUS gave him that power in a decision that, I believe, dates back to 1924--saying that the president was an 'executive' and should have that firing power as do all executives.

Why should this matter? Well, the slow-witted justices of that time could not conceive that a president would come along who would get rid of people until he was satisfied that a suitable sycophant was working for him; i.e., Mr. William Barr in the case of his attorney general. However, that power to fire is extended to all who report to the White House with the possible exception of the Vice President who either because he's already a nice lackey or because his firing would really rankle the feathers of conservatives, hasn't been considered for the chopping block. It's a dictatorial power that SCOTUS conferred on presidents. It's as heinous as the disenfranchisement power that SCOTUS--via Scalia* (may he rot in hell)--conferred on corporations in the ironic Citizens United Decision.

What the Founding Fathers intended--if I could be so presumptuous--was that people should be vetted from the start and allowed to do their job without interference from the White House.Then, they were to be impeached if they committed serious crimes.

*Justice Scalia once said, "if you don't like the law, change it." This was as disingenuous a statement as they come and he knew it. It was downright hypocritical because as we've been discussing, SCOTUS, with total abandon, even tampers with the supreme law of the land--our Constitution. It was disingenuous because anyone who follows politics knows how damn lazy Congress is and only goes to work when their bases strongly speak up; otherwise, they'd much rather just do inside trading.

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