Post AsCwVKBREycCLOhETw by ErikJonker@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AsCwVKBREycCLOhETw by ErikJonker@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T23:06:31Z
       
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       An FTC commissioner was fired illegally by Trump, read his statement.#trump #ftc
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJBYRbsGndKj4zIlU by clusterfcku@mastodon.social
       2025-03-18T23:55:10Z
       
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       @ErikJonker what does "illegaly fired" mean here? No jurisdiction? No notice? ...?
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJBYSp1lNkUUA9JuC by shaknais@mastodon.social
       2025-03-19T01:42:01Z
       
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       @clusterfcku @ErikJonker Independent agencies are intentionally created outside of the executive branch. As such, they are not covered by presidential agency. Congress must debate and pass a motion of dismissal, to fire someone.That's the meaning of "independent".
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJBYTVZDDmCc63IDA by clusterfcku@mastodon.social
       2025-03-19T02:05:00Z
       
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       @shaknais @ErikJonker thanks, so in this case the executive had no authority, right? Isn't it that the employee is simply not fired. (I appreciate that the phrase "illegally fired" is used because people sort of get what it is about.) Perhaps comparable to the police telling me I'm fired, although I work for a plumber. I'm trying to understand how this legally works out. An illegal firing to me is when there is no cause, or the employer violates the employment contract/law. No?
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJBYUAgkKfafdI8J6 by shaknais@mastodon.social
       2025-03-19T08:30:33Z
       
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       @clusterfcku @ErikJonker The employee remains fired, because the one who would enforce whether they may return to work or not, is the one who has illegally fired them.There's a presidential order, that shouldn't be in effect, being enforced.Like the police chief firing the plumber, but the police chief also being the landowner and stationing security on the perimeter of their rentee's property.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJCG9I3k81AeOYk7c by clacke@libranet.de
       2025-03-22T09:30:15Z
       
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       @clusterfcku @ErikJonker It means that the executive branch is breaking laws left and right, which regulate what the executive is allowed to do. When the courts order them to follow the law, they ignore court orders.They make social media posts engaging in legal fiction about how the judicial branch is not allowed to interpret law and is not allowed to "interfere" with the executive. It's a completely unique event in this century and the century before it. It's a constitutional crisis and a breakdown of the rule of law.