MSNBC: Reporting that trump has fired Berman....LINK

[spanone]

He has the 'authority'.

Link to tweet

NOW: AG Barr says in a letter to Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman that Trump has now officially fired him, and that's that, rejecting any argument by Berman that a judicial appointment means he can't be removed.




Trump has fired Berman, Barr says

(CNN)Attorney General Bill Barr said Saturday that President Donald Trump has fired the Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York.

"Because you have declared that you have no intention of resigning, I have asked the President to remove you as of today, and he has done so," Barr wrote in a letter to Berman. "By operation of law, the Deputy United States Attorney, Audrey Strauss, will become the Acting United States Attorney, and I anticipate that she will serve in that capacity until a permanent successor is in place."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/politics/trump-fires-berman-barr-says/index.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That's almost certainly going to court, and in any event

Berman is likely to let some cats out of SDNY's bag.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Could this be

the hill on which he has chosen to die? Metaphorically speaking, natch.

[Budi]

8. Could be the Archibald Cox of hail marys, that Nixon tried

Saturday Night Massacre, 1973.


Narcissists can't quit or their brain will explode. 😬
At least that's what witnesses tell us.

"One of the most controversial episodes of the Watergate scandal, the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” came on October 20, 1973, when embattled President Richard Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus."

[Budi]

3. Trump's obstruction is showing. Thought it had to go thru the Senate

Senate has to select a replacement before Berman leaves.

Wonder what Berman spent the day at the office doing.
Hmmmm...

[pwb]

4. Another over reach to mask guilt.

This will play in our favor at the polls. IMO.

[bottomofthehill]

5. Well he may just have a lot to say

When he goes before the House Judiciary Committee this week....

[FM123]

6. twitter link to to letter firing him

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea-oqrfXkAANbxb?format=png&name=900x900

[Towlie]

7. Here's an op-ed that discusses that possibility:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-20/berman-barr-trump-firing-attorney

An opinion from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Legal Counsel dating to the 1970s says that the attorney general cannot fire U.S. attorneys appointed that way, but that the president can do so. It seems likely that Barr will now urge Trump to fire Berman, and he probably won’t need much prompting.

But here’s the rub. The courts have never ruled on whether a president can fire a §546 appointee. That sets the stage for a court battle, in which we should expect the DOJ to argue, once again, that the president has to have this power under the theory of a — you guessed it — unitary executive.

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[Budi]

9. Thanks. Interesting article.

[spanone]

10. Also added a link to original op....

👍🏼

[pecosbob]

11. The DOJ opinion is not law

any more than the cockamamie concept that the President is immune to prosecution while in office.

[dalton99a]

12. Well, Trump just denied firing him

[Kaleva]

13. There's another thread saying Trump told reporters he didn't fire Berman

[Paladin]

14. Time for that prosecutors' office to start leaking like a fucking sieve.

I want a public news dump of every dirty thing they have on trump and Barr, and I want it by close of business this coming Monday.

Enough of this shit.