Dept of Homeland Security Resigns...

And yet there is still not a single briefing from ANYONE in the Administration on an unprecedented security breach.

Can we firmly lay to rest any remaining microscopic thread of the notion that governing competency resides anywhere in the Republican Party?

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LOL, just read the summary of the link I just posted at R3...Wolf said battles over the legality of his appointment "divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time."

The Trump admin isn't going to brief anyone on the attempted coup, they're RESPONSIBLE for the attempted coup!

I thought Trump rescinded Wolf's appointment anyway. The Wikipedia page yesterday already had Wolf's replacement listed, I remember seeing that when I was glancing at the current cabinet members.

He's hot.

What do we know about his replacement? Is he an Orange loyalist who'll do whatever Orange wants?

Dept of Homeland Security Resigns...

The whole department, OP?

The Republicans claim to be so patriotic, yet they besmirch any opportunity to rise to it.

The coup WAS the White House’s briefing.

[quote]Wolf's resignation comes three days after a federal judge in California ruled that his appointment as acting secretary in November 2019 was likely unlawful, blocking a set of sweeping asylum restrictions that were slated to take effect Monday.

[quote]Three days before the court ruling on Friday, Wolf's nomination to be the permanent, Senate-confirmed secretary of homeland secretary was withdrawn by the White House.

Not sure why OP is panicking, this guy was hardly even the acting secretary at all. He was out the door before the coup even started.

Maybe I was wrong about Wikipedia having his replacement on their last night already, I guess Pete Gaynor wasn't announced until today.

I can't help but think these resignations makes it harder and harder for the 25th amendment to be an option.

Exactly, R13.

He was just a TEMP.

R13 How so? Apologises for not knowing.

He’s a hottie

Deplorables are NOT hot, R17.

R16,

The 25th Amendment calls for Cabinet Level officials to come together and agree to depose the President.

Can you name all of our current, SENATE CONFIRMED (this detail is important), Cabinet secretaries??? Google it, if you have to.

The Cabinet is empty...just Ginny in Billing and Margie in Human Resources are left.

Please accept my job offer of being my forever top daddy.

R19 Don't be too sure of that, R19. I thought they had to be confirmed, too, but the language of the statute does not refer not to Senate confirmed Cabinet Secretaries, but rather "the principal officers of the Executive departments."

SECTION 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."

"Principal officers" appears to mean the people running the departments. It says nothing about their need to have been confirmed by the Senate.

R19: R22 beat me to it, but acting secretaries are allowed to vote on the invocation of the 25th. As Yale Law cited on page 13 of their reader's guide for the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:

Can acting heads of Executive Departments participate? Yes. The “principal officers” of the executive departments are understood from the legislative history to be the Presidential appointees who direct the executive departments named in 5 U.S.C. §101.16 Congressional debates regarding the Twenty-Fifth Amendment indicate that a recess appointee to a principal officer position would be able to participate in the determination of inability. However, leading up to the passage of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, there was some debate as to whether the acting heads of the executive departments should participate in the process created by the Amendment. The House Judiciary Committee report established that they should, noting, “In the case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the head of any executive department, the acting head of the department would be authorized to participate in a presidential inability determination.” This view was later echoed by then-Senator Robert F. Kennedy in a floor debate on June 30, 1965, and assumed by other senators during subsequent discussions concerning the firing and replacement of Cabinet members.

R22, R23, thank you for that correction—genuinely.

But that now makes the problem that all the upper positions are filled with sycophants. I want accountability but it does seem pointless to impeach with 8 days left...

What are the likes of Russia, China, Iran, Syria, North Korea, etc... doing just about now?

That was my thought R24. Who appointed these 2nd in commands? Trump most likely.

I just don't know.

R24 It's not pointless. Conviction by the Senate after impeachment by the House would make him ineligible to run for federal office again. They don't have to have the Senate trial before he leaves office.

He'd also forfeit Secret Service protection for himself and his family, his pension, office funding, travel funding, etc. - everything an ex-President would otherwise be eligible to receive.

R27, I don't think it automatically makes him ineligible to run for Federal Office again. From what I understand, the Senate has to vote to convict, with 2/3 of the Senate agreeing. After that, it takes a simple majority vote to determine whether the punishment includes barring an individual from holding Federal Office again.

The thing is, will barring him in the future do much? Or will it just encourage his cultists to support one of his crotch fruit?

He resigns just a week before the inauguration when these unhinged nutters have threatened to attack?

[quote]The Cabinet is empty

I feel its pain.

I fear martial law.