Timothy Birdnow

In an unbelievable twist, the Democrats in Maryland are suing the Trump Administration to block his appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General.

From the article:

"Maryland contends that President Donald Trump acted unlawfully in selecting Whitaker, whose prior role as chief of staff is not a Senate-confirmed position, over Rosenstein, who is Senate-confirmed as the deputy attorney general. The state said it will seek a preliminary injunction asking the court to recognize that Rosenstein, not Whitaker, is the appropriate defendant in an ongoing lawsuit challenging the Justice Department's position opposing certain parts of former President Barack Obama's health care law."

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The Tenure of Office Act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1926 in Myers v. United States. (I wrote about that at American Thinker here. It had been repealed decades before. The Tenure of Office Act tried to stop President Andrew Johnson from hiring or firing his cabinet, forcing him to accept the people appointed by Abraham Lincoln.

Johnson was not elected but assumed the office of President when Lincoln was assassinated. Donald Trump was duly elected by the American People. There is absolutely no merit to this lawsuit, but no doubt this will go before an Obama appointee and will have to be appealed.

Question; if the Democrats did so well in this last election, and if the political winds are blowing in their favor, why fight this? Isn't this an unnecessary battle at this point? The fact is, the Democrats STILL must keep the pressure on the Trump Administration, to keep Trump impotent and to hopefully get enough dirt to impeach him in the next election. They cannot afford a strong Attorney General who will take action against their free-for-all behavior.

This shows clearly Trump did the right thing here

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