You mean the elected president and his Senate-confirmed appointees actually have authority over subordinates in the executive branch? No kidding! Someone had better alert the media.
Amusingly, it took federal judge Anthony Trenga two tries before getting this right. Trenga had previously issued a TRO against CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who had issued dismissal notices to 51 CIA and ODNI employees assigned to enforce DEI policies, in accordance with an executive order from Donald Trump. Trenga wanted to get Ratcliffe to justify the dismissals.
In the end, Trenga followed the law, but wasn’t happy about it:
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can go ahead with plans to fire dozens of officers from the CIA and other intelligence agencies who had temporary jobs working on diversity programs.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga said if…
