In other words, DHS illegally abused the vacancies process because then-Secretary Nielsen messed up the memo that re-did the order of succession to allow for folks who couldn’t otherwise have held those jobs in the first place.
Malevolence tempered by incompetence, exhibit 9532.
Malevolence tempered by incompetence, exhibit 9532.
If McAleenan was never properly the Acting Secretary, then he had no authority to rewrite the order of succession again—which in turn calls into question both the validity of the appointment of Chad Wolf as Acting Secretary and Ken Cuccinelli as Acting Secretary.
This is insane.
This is insane.
And none of this insanity would have happened in the first place if, heaven forbid, the Senate actually insisted that the President nominate qualified candidates for confirmation, versus abdicating its institutional role and enabling these (and other) abuses of the process.
