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Anyone in the private sector would be fired under similar conditions, except probably without an article in the NY times.
by rphlx 10y ago
Anyone in the private sector would be fired under similar conditions, except probably without an article in the NY times.
- whyileft 10y agoConsidering it is illegal for companies to do what Trump ordered[0], I'm not sure that would be the best analogy. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm
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- rphlx 10y agoShe was fired for outright refusing to do her job [1], encouraging her subordinates to the same, and for going public about it. [1] "to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned"
- nikdaheratik 10y agoNo, her job is to help follow the laws of the country, not to do whatever the President says. The President is not a dictator or a CEO.
- Retra 10y agoThe president is a CEO. He is quite literally the chief officer of the executive branch. Though he is a CEO of a public entity. Something I'm pretty sure he has no experience with.
- rayiner 10y agoIf a well known company fired a GC for not following a CEO order to do something illegal, the NYT would love to write about it.
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- hiddencost 10y agoNonsense. Any lawyer fired for obeying an illegal order would end up pretty much owning the company that fired them. The duty of lawyers is to the law first, and their employer second. An EO is not a law.
- rphlx 10y agoThis EO is certainly unpopular, but it is hardly clear (yet) that it's illegal. Even the NYT does not make that claim.
- michaelchisari 10y agoWhich is one of many reasons why we are not governed by the private sector.