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Comey was a political appointment rather than the guy who will temporarily replace him as Acting Director (who has civil service protection) and can't be dismis
by wavefunction 9y ago
Comey was a political appointment rather than the guy who will temporarily replace him as Acting Director (who has civil service protection) and can't be dismissed as Acting Director, only replaced by appointing a new Director of the FBI.
- CalChris 9y agoDunno. What is certain is that Trump can't appoint a new Director without Senate confirmation. And I'm not even certain about that. He may be able to appoint an acting Director for an indeterminate amount of time. In particular, There are no statutory conditions on the President’s authority to remove the FBI Director. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41850.pdf https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41850.pdf From the same cite, a President can nominate an acting Director. On the day after the death of long-time Director J. Edgar Hoover, L. Patrick Gray was appointed acting Director. The Constitution was set up with checks and balances. But it requires the branches of government to do their duty. When you have a corrupt President of the same party that controls Congress, that may be asking too much.