Watching Rachel, if the oped's writer is Pence, can the president fire his VP?

[kimbutgar]

I remember spiro agnew resigning but can a potus fire his Vice President?

[JI7]

1. no

[hlthe2b]

2. NO

[MiniMe]

3. No, he would have to be impeached

Pence is an elected official and can't be fired by the President

[meow2u3]

4. Trump also threatened the senior official with arrest

Try arresting Pence, you dumb shit!

[C_U_L8R]

14. What law was broken?

[meow2u3]

20. The "law" inside his twisted mind

which allows him to arrest anyone arbitrarily.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. No. He was elected so Trump can't fire him.

The NYT said they weren't publishing the writer's identity in order to protect his job, but Pence doesn't need to have his job protected. That's one reason, though not the only one, that I don't think it's Pence.

[Recursion]

8. For the first 20 years of the Republic the guy who lost was the VP

It made it awkward, to say the least.

[bdamomma]

11. I don't think

it's Pence either. Rachel was so informative and we all know he's mentally deranged.

We get it, it's the filthy repigs who are cowards.

[Recursion]

6. No. In fact the VP is actually a Legislative branch employee

His paycheck comes from the Senate, not the White House

[uponit7771]

19. +1

[avebury]

7. I don't think that it is Pence.

I don’t think that he is smart enough to pull it off. I think that the author is possibly part of a small tight knit group. They might be smart enough to throw in red herrings to make it look like Pence is involved.

[mucifer]

10. Someone else might have written it and pence might have brought it in

[CentralMass]

9. Maybe rRump can be goaded into ratting on Pence etc..

[maryellen99]

12. I bet it's Mattis JMO nt

[FarPoint]

15. What about the WH Attorney...

McGhan...?

[Grassy Knoll]

13. I Think Paul Ryan, Trying To Make It Look Like Pence

If Pence Drops Out, Ryan Would Be ( hehe) # 2.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. More credible speculation is that it's someone involved in national security/intelligence

or the DoJ. The writing is lawyerish.

[TomSlick]

18. It is.

The only use I have seen of "lodestar" in writings is in the "Lodestar Method" of setting court awarded attorney's fees.