Well, well. Democrats ultimately appreciate Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the unitary executive. We refer to the dismissal from the first day of Joe Biden of Director Kathy Kraninger, Director of the Office of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) and General Counsel of the National Council for Labor Relations (NLRB), Peter Robb.
A president deserves his own people to lead administrative agencies. But Mr Biden’s dismissal represents a break with a long precedent in the NLRB and a 180-degree reversal of democratic views on the CFPB. The good news is that this could trigger a legal challenge to the Supreme Court’s precedents.
In 2010, the Democratic Congress created the CFPB as an independent agency whose director could be fired by the president only for inefficiency, debt neglect or abuse. While at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Kavanaugh then wrote both a decision and a dissent, arguing that this limitation violated the separation of powers. Its logic was adopted by the High Court last summer (Seila Law against CFPB).
Indicates liberal outrage. “The so-called Republicans of the Court have made it clear in Seil their distaste for independent agencies, “shouted Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
To record, Ms Kraninger supported the president’s authority to remove the blanket, even though it meant that a future president could remove it. That’s what happened. Mrs Kraninger received an e-mail at the White House at 12:21 on Wednesday, saying: “If you do not resign from 14:00 today, President Biden will remove you from office.”