Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defended President Donald Trump’s decision to fire 18 inspectors general this week, saying that the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled in Trump’s favor as it relates to his power to fire federal employees.
Cotton made the remarks during a Sunday interview on “Fox News Sunday” when asked about the firings by host Shannon Bream after critics have called the move illegal because Trump did not first notify Congress.
“Time and time again, the Supreme Court has said that Congress can’t impose restrictions on the president’s power to remove officers,” Cotton said. “In President Trump’s first term, he removed the Director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau despite limitations on the President’s constitutional power to remove officers, that was litigated at the Supreme Court and the president…
