Unreal-- DHS says it temporarily put FEMA chief Peter Gaynor in charge of the department Nov 14

[Nevilledog]

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Nick Miroff
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Unreal-- DHS says it temporarily put FEMA chief Peter Gaynor in charge of the department Nov 14 so he could change the order of succession to make Chad Wolf eligible for acting secretary job. Then Wolf re-issued all the orders that were under legal cloud
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DHS Statement on Recent Challenges to Acting Secretary Wolf’s Authority
Acting Secretary Chad Wolf continues to exercise authority as the head of the Department of Homeland Security in line with the succession orders issued by former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former...
dhs.gov
11:42 AM · Nov 17, 2020

[gratuitous]

1. By the time a judge gets around to ruling their actions illegal

They'll all be long gone to their wingnut welfare sinecures.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Okay then ... take notes, Joe and Kamala!

If Mitch wants to be a prick, we now have a precedent for putting whoever we want, wherever we want using whatever nonsense justification we want.

Thanks Donnie!

[greenjar_01]

3. Well I gotta give them this: they're definitely running the government like a Trump Org business