Not all the Supreme Court verdicts released this week went Trump’s way, but the ones that did, the liberal media spared no grief over. MS NOW’s Ali Velshi, on the congealed propaganda slop disguised as his talk show The 11th Hour, started off Monday’s episode lamented over the Court’s decision on Trump v. Slaughter, which ruled that the president can indeed fire commissioners of executive agencies without cause.
Trump “won the kind of sweeping power that is more typically held by kings than presidents,” Velshi, dramatically proclaimed in his opening monologue.
He then explained how certain government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, from which Rebecca Slaughter was removed, work: “Their jobs are essentially to be government watchdogs, to enforce the laws that are passed by Congress.”
Now, it’s not clear whether Velshi ever passed a fifth grade government class — he only holds an honorary Doctorate of Laws from a Canadian university — but the enforcement of the laws falls to the executive branch, not the legislative or judicial. As the head of the executive branch, according to Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, President Trump holds the power to “appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for.”
The position of Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission has no special exemption from this statute, so the President is at liberty to appoint someone to that job. It logically follows that the president may also fire a person holding that office.
But according to Velshi, this simple logic promotes a dangerous theory:
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