Just last week, President Trump fired a large number of inspectors general. He had done much the same thing in 2020, seeing them as a major source of the swamp fever that plagued his rookie administration.

Taft weighed in on the Tenure of Office Act as well, ruling it unconstitutional, even though it had been long gone.
In his reincarnated presidency and no longer a rookie, Trump has hit the ground running. He hasn’t waited years before addressing entrenched forces within his administration which he believes are ready to hobble him and slow his agenda any way they can. Trump can hardly be blamed for wanting to avoid a term in which far too much of his energy was drained to deal with endless investigations that resulted in not much more than draining his time and energy.
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, last week took a stand against the way the IGs were fired. Together with the ranking minority member, he wrote to the president to object, stating that there is statute law governing how IGs can be fired. They wrote:
The law must be followed. The communication to Congress must contain more than just broad and vague statements; rather, it must include sufficient facts and details to assure Congress and the public that the termination is due to real concerns about the Inspector General’s ability to carry out their mission.
This is a matter of public and congressional accountability and ensuring the public’s confidence in the Inspector General community, a sentiment shared more broadly by other Members of Congress.
Grassley supported Trump strongly in this election. He has been a stalwart throughout the Biden years, doing his best to thwart the woke madness. But as a senior senator, he stands firm for the privileges of the Senate and the Legislative Branch and is willing to form a bi-partisan coalition to protect those privileges.
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