DOJ: Trump Can Fire All Women And Those Over 40

The Daily Beast reports:

The DOJ argued Tuesday that President Donald Trump would be well within his authority to fire all agency chiefs who are women—or over the age of 40. Eric McArthur, a deputy assistant attorney general, made the statement in response to a hypothetical scenario posed by Judge Karen Henderson of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals during Tuesday’s oral argument over the firing of two board members of independent agencies.

“Mr. McArthur, could the president decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Henderson, one of three judges on the panel, asked the DOJ attorney during the proceedings. “I think that that would be within the president’s constitutional authority under the removal power,” McArthur responded.

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The Department of Justice argued Tuesday that President Donald Trump would be well within his authority to fire all agency chiefs who are women—or over the age of 40.https://t.co/FGM9YnTmiL

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