NewsweekFox News host confronts Tom Cotton with GOP concerns about Trump's IG purge
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
48% : " When asked by Bream if Trump will fill these inspectors general positions, Cotton said he believes so, adding that "maybe he won't fill them immediately because there's an entire administration to staff and he may have other priorities.47% : " John Choon Yoo, a law professor at University of California at Berkeley, previously told Newsweek in an email on Saturday: "President Trump is well within his power to remove members of the executive branch at will.
42% : Neither the White House nor Trump have released an official statement.
39% : In a Sunday interview with Fox News, Bream confronted Cotton with GOP concerns about the firing of the inspectors general and said, "I've heard from some of your GOP colleagues who are concerned about this saying it didn't give the proper notification even if ultimately it would be, the notice wasn't there and as President Trump signaling he's just going to observe which laws he wants to and not others.
32% : It's a very standard thing to do..." Tristan Snell, a lawyer who helped lead the prosecution of Trump regarding Trump University, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Saturday morning: "Trump fires 17 inspectors general - all the internal govt enforcement officials for every major government agency and department This was ILLEGAL - firing an IG requires 30 day notice to Congress.
19% : CONGRESS MUST ACT TO REINSTATE THEM, NOW." Barbara McQuade, MSNBC legal analyst and former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan under the Barack Obama administration, wrote in a Saturday morning X post: "Trump has fired 12 inspectors general without providing the 30-day notice to Congress required by law.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
