Impeach or conviction won't happen because his army aka Republicans go right along with it. Their party hates America. Hates the Constitution. Hates the American people, but love billionaires and Nazis.

Strongly slap the wrists of those tiny hands?

do shit.

He didn't commit a crime (and if he had, he would have immunity). All that can be done is for the terminated IGs to go to court seeking an order enjoining their terminations from taking effect. Assuming they are successful, Trump could simply submit the required notice and after 30 days, the terminations would be effective. Sure, objections could be raised based on the content of the notice -- but litigation is expensive so don't be surprised if some if not all of the terminated IGs ultimately give up the fight. I can't blame them, to be honest.

trump's firing of inspector generals. What a lack of integrity, what a fraud.

felon and an adjudicated sexual abuser/rapist. He's been breaking laws his entire execrable life and no one and nothing has ever been able to touch him in any meaningful way that even temporarily made him stop. Why would anything be different now?

Supreme court told him he could do. Every day and every day.

This move was illegal

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If so then he unfortunately didn't break though law but that doesn't mean he isn't a complete and utter bastard who's grave I'd like to piss on.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5a/compiledact-95-452/section-3

"An Inspector General may be removed from office by the President. If an Inspector General is removed from office or is transferred to another position or location within an establishment, the President shall communicate in writing the reasons for any such removal or transfer to both Houses of Congress, not later than 30 days before the removal or transfer. "

Okay, so what if the POTUS doesn't do that? It doesn't say what happens. So yeah, he's broken the law, but what happens as a consequence of that?

And spineless repukes will say the same.

The Biden Administration's Department of Justice had four years to drive a stake through the vampire's heart and drag the corpse into the sun so as to render it ash. Figuratively. They didn't. What they wound up proving is that the coercive power of the court system is to be "applied" only to the Not Rich. It's there to keep us in our place, especially should we come into confrontation with someone above our class. In that regard it's like the police and religion: they are institutions designed to keep the masters masters. The only time justice is applied to the rich is when they commit offenses against each other, as with Bernie Madoff; who, had he stuck to Not Rich people, would most likely never have seen the inside of a jail cell. It's ironic, in a way. Liberals are the ones most dedicated to preserving institutions, to maintaining the status quo; yet this colossal undermining happened on their watch.

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Or whatever it said to that effect.

*facepalm*

is golf. And there he cheats.

The SC may even agree that impeachment is the appropriate punishment. But lots of luck having it prosecuted in the House or getting a conviction in the Senate.

There will be many, many worse things that he will do in the coming months. Impeaching him for something like this will only make him stronger. Once he does something truly impeachable (invading Greenland), then you can impeach him and the public will turn against him.

Why are there quotes around "he broke the law"? He gave no 30 day notice to Congress, no written presentation of reasons as required by law so that sounds like a statement of fact.

My question is if he is immune from consequences of any official acts, as stated by SCOTUS, and hiring and firing personnel surely is, is he constrained by laws (rules) or does his word alone prevail over the will of the people (rule of law)?

I'm seriously concerned that the currently corrupt SC will find that laws constraining a unitary executive authority are really only guidelines, just like the president is currently pretending they are.

It prevent criminal prosecutions. But many many things that are 'unlawful' -- including not giving the required notice before terminating IGs -- are not criminal violations. The courts can and should enjoin the terminations assuming any of the terminated IGs go to court. But they may opt not to do so since Trump could simply give the required notice and fire them again. Suing is expensive and I suspect its not worth the cost for an IG to go to court beyond getting one more month's pay.

Because they are directly quoting a statement that Schiff made and included that in their headline?

In the first paragraph was this taken from Schiff's comments -

I don't think they were trying to decide if what he said was true or not but are actually using the quote marks because they are literally quoting him!

This is another case where law makers didn't envision anyone like Trump who would so blatantly act the way he does. inspector generals serve a very important role in our government, ensuring integrity and efficiency.