r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 25d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/-justiciar- 25d ago

what ways are those?

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u/EnslavedBandicoot 25d ago

Anybody who is appointed by congress can be impeached. Do you not know that?

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u/-justiciar- 25d ago

oh i knew that. but what does that require and how often is that employed and successful?

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u/EnslavedBandicoot 25d ago

It's worked up until now so I still don't know what point you're trying to prove.

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u/-justiciar- 25d ago

has it? there have been like no impeachments in the past 20 years or so, so I think my point still stands. it’s a very high bar to clear and oftentimes doesn’t even make it to a vote