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https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/can-tr...e-mueller/
There’s yet another route the president could take, Neal Katyal, a professor of national security law at Georgetown University, wrote in a piece for the Washington Post on May 19: “Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.”
Katyal said he would know, because back in 1999, he was tapped by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to head an internal working group on the issue of special counsel — and he helped write the regulations now being cited by Rosenstein.
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Ted King wrote:
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/can-tr...e-mueller/
There’s yet another route the president could take, Neal Katyal, a professor of national security law at Georgetown University, wrote in a piece for the Washington Post on May 19: “Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.”
Katyal said he would know, because back in 1999, he was tapped by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to head an internal working group on the issue of special counsel — and he helped write the regulations now being cited by Rosenstein.
That would be a lengthy and complicated process. From what I understand (which I can't recall this second) it's nothing he could do instantly.
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vision63 wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/can-tr...e-mueller/
There’s yet another route the president could take, Neal Katyal, a professor of national security law at Georgetown University, wrote in a piece for the Washington Post on May 19: “Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.”
Katyal said he would know, because back in 1999, he was tapped by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to head an internal working group on the issue of special counsel — and he helped write the regulations now being cited by Rosenstein.
That would be a lengthy and complicated process. From what I understand (which I can't recall this second) it's nothing he could do instantly.
If it's only a matter of administrative regulation that is in his way, then Trump can change the regulations that regulate how he can change the Special Counsel regulations. But if there is law that is very clear that stands in his way of quickly changing those regulations then I could see how that might slow him up. Or if his legal claim to be able to do so was one where there is no great precedent or consensus then changing the regulations might get hung up in court challenges. If those things are the case, then what you say about the delay is very plausible. I don't know if those things are the case, though.
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Ted King wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=Ted King]
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/can-tr...e-mueller/
There’s yet another route the president could take, Neal Katyal, a professor of national security law at Georgetown University, wrote in a piece for the Washington Post on May 19: “Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.”
Katyal said he would know, because back in 1999, he was tapped by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to head an internal working group on the issue of special counsel — and he helped write the regulations now being cited by Rosenstein.
That would be a lengthy and complicated process. From what I understand (which I can't recall this second) it's nothing he could do instantly.
If it's only a matter of administrative regulation that is in his way, then Trump can change the regulations that regulate how he can change the Special Counsel regulations. But if there is law that is very clear that stands in his way of quickly changing those regulations then I could see how that might slow him up. Or if his legal claim to be able to do so was one where there is no great precedent or consensus then changing the regulations might get hung up in court challenges. If those things are the case, then what you say about the delay is very plausible. I don't know if those things are the case, though.
Who ever thought we'd ever have to get into this level of federal regulatory detail? Which knows what's going to take him down?
