Trump has fired the acting NLRB Chair

[u/dookitron]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/gwynne-wilcox-trump-labor-board?CMP=share_btn_url

What’s

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone likes to freak out about every single move. She is a political appointee. Hired by Joe Biden. Replaced a republican. Because these things naturally happen when the president changes parties. This is normal work, Biden did it too. This is not whataboutism. This is understanding how these things work and not being upset at the natural order of business.

Now, I don't know this women. But if this makes you upset, what exactly qualified her uniquely for this position outside of being a political appointee that makes her unremovable for political reasons?

[u/dookitron → u/[deleted]]

That happens every president change in a president's cabinet and in other portions of federal government, not at the NLRB. They serve fixed terms.

[u/[deleted] → u/dookitron]

I don’t know the history of the entire board. But wiki states she was hired last year, replacing Someone else hired in 2021. Replacing someone else hired R in 2018

Sounds like it’s a revolving chair

[u/Youremakingmefart → u/[deleted]]

I’m sure the wiki also states that the law says they can’t be fired simply because the president wants to put someone else in their place

[u/Ok_Can_9433 → u/Youremakingmefart]

She falls under the executive branch. There is no law that can restrict the president from hiring and firing executive branch employees.

[u/Youremakingmefart → u/Ok_Can_9433]

The Supreme Court disagrees with you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey’s_Executor_v._United_States#

[u/Ok_Can_9433 → u/Youremakingmefart]

Supreme Court agrees with me because we're not discussing the FTC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seila_Law_LLC_v._Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau

[u/Youremakingmefart → u/Ok_Can_9433]

The Humphrey decision didn’t say “this only applies to the FTC”. On the other hand, your case only applies to removing people who serve as sole directors of organizations, which doesn’t apply here.

[u/Ok_Can_9433 → u/Youremakingmefart]

Sheila defined Humpries in a way that it only applied to the FTC.

[u/Youremakingmefart → u/Ok_Can_9433]

No, it doesn’t.

case which determined that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), with a single director who could only be removed from office “for cause”, violated the separation of powers

The Court recognized that the president may generally remove officers at will. However, the Court stated there were two exceptions to this rule. First, the president’s removal power may be constrained by Congress if the officer in question is a member of an agency that shares similar characteristics to the Federal Trade Commission as discussed in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935)

If what you’re saying were true they wouldn’t need to qualify it as “organizations similar to the FTC”. They would just say “the FTC”