Canned Social Security Chief Andrew Saul says Biden had no right to fire him and plans to show up...

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Canned Social Security Chief Andrew Saul says Biden had no right to fire him and plans to show up for work as usual Monday morning. Alas, that means logging on from his home in New York. So not sure it's going to create too much drama or angst. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-low-drama-of-work-from-home… via @TPM
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2:55 PM · Jul 9, 2021

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-low-drama-of-work-from-home

Work from home has been a boon or a loss for people across the US. Now it’s deprived just-fired former Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul of some what appears to be some much-desired drama. In their write-up of Saul’s firing, which didn’t note that TPM reported the news first but we totally don’t care about those things, the Post quotes Saul as saying he does not recognize the legality of his dismissal and plans to show up for work Monday morning like any other day.

That’s going to be pretty awkward when Saul shows up and presumably SSA personnel have to physically bar him from going to his office! And yet that’s not actually what’s going to happen. Saul plans to go to work Monday morning by logging in from his home in New York – Saul’s a big-time apparel industry executive and GOP donor.

Needless to say, that comes with a bit less drama. Presumably all the folks who are actually in charge of the agency have to do is change his password.

Another bit of irony. What paved the way for this decision was the recent Supreme Court decision which stems from the controversy over whether Trump could can the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

*snip*

[Lovie777]

1. Doesn't the President of the United States have the right to fire IRS Commissioner? . .. .

Especially after the President asked him to resign.

[PoliticAverse]

3. In the recent Supreme Court decision the court wrote in regards to other agencies...

we do not comment on the constitutionality of any removal restriction that applies to their officers.

So it is going to have to take another Supreme Court decision to make this firing stick.


See: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-saul-joe-bide-fire-social-security_n_60d382dfe4b0da66c2db294b

In a concurring opinion on Wednesday, Justice Elena Kagan wrote of Social Security that “a betting person might wager that the agency’s removal provision is next on the chopping block.”

[SoCalNative]

4. Well, he can attempt to log on Monday morning

but I'm betting that his access has already been deactivated, so....

[rurallib]

11. Once upon a long time ago I was the guy who deleted guys like him

at the company I worked at. One of the perks of my job I always thought. Usually tried to have them gone before they were out the door physically.

[whistler162]

14. June 30th I disabled my accounts

at about 3 pm as I was leaving,

[2naSalit]

18. All thee agencies...

Where I worked had your acct disabled at 8am the day of discharge. You had to have all your docs in a row the day before. I expect he'll not have access next time he tries to log in.

[tulipsandroses]

6. Good luck with that. Been fired once, left a few positions. Each time they disabled

access to computer systems. badges, etc. So good luck dumbass.
I doubt he will be able to log into anything.

[MiniMe]

7. He is going to be surprised when his username and password don't work on Monday

At least they wouldn't be if I was in charge.

[Xavier Breath]

12. Then he'll get to spend the morning on hold

waiting to speak with his IT group ("There are now seventeen callers ahead of you" ) until some kid comes on the line and reminds him that he's in fact unemployed

[C_U_L8R]

8. It'll be hilarious when he shows up and his card key doesn't work

Hope there are news cameras for that bit of trumpist hilarity. What jokers.

[Ocelot II]

9. He's been working from home so all they have to do is deactivate his password.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Womp womp

[maxsolomon]

13. The plan was always to hollow the bureaucracy out. Saul wants to stay and finish the job.

Claim that Gubmint can't do anything right, then sabotage it to prove the point.

"18 months of Chaos", said the GQP Congressman.

[BootinUp]

15. I, Biggus Dickus, will not leave!

[Mr. Ected]

16. He is only interested in 2 things:

1. Collecting his government check.

2. Continuing to create a toxic environment to prove that government doesn't work.

[PortTack]

17. From the sounds of it he had every reason to expect to be fired...mismanagement of funds

Just to please the then idiot king