{"id":731526,"date":"2021-09-08T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=731526"},"modified":"2021-09-08T19:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:06:24","slug":"biden-purges-trump-appointees-from-fixed-term-government-boards-in-unprecedented-departure-from-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-purges-trump-appointees-from-fixed-term-government-boards-in-unprecedented-departure-from-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Purges Trump Appointees From Fixed-Term Government Boards In \u2018Unprecedented\u2019 Departure From Norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-purges-trump-appointees-from-fixed-term-government-boards-in-unprecedented-departure-from-norms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=731526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1319478578-westpoint.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Joe Biden administration is purging the federal government\u2019s constellation of advisory boards and commissions of Donald Trump appointees, even though such people are typically appointed to fixed terms and are not removed by new presidents.<\/p>\n<p>Officials received a curt letter, one dated today, saying \u201cPlease submit your resignation to me by the close of business today. Should we not receive your resignation, your position with the Board will be terminated effective 6:00 pm tonight. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The removals range from highly credentialed experts at obscure entities where politics are unlikely to be an issue, such as the Arctic Research Commission, to military service academies.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, the Biden administration initially opted to refused to convene the commissions, including the National Board for Education Sciences \u2014 meaning the Biden administration chose to suspend a board dedicated to science in education during a year defined by schools\u2019 attempt to grapple with how they should respond to the coronavirus, seemingly to ensure that no one tied to Trump would have a voice.<\/p>\n<p>That board is also tasked with ensuring that the work of the Education Department\u2019s Institute of Educational Sciences is \u201cobjective, secular, neutral, nonideological, and free of partisan political influence and racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, two Trump appointees to that board, Steve Hanke and John Yoo, sued Biden\u2019s Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, saying bureaucrats had simply ignored the fact that they were duly appointed to the board.<\/p>\n<p>By ignoring Trump-appointed members, the board lacked a quorum so it could not meet at all, violating a law that required it to meet three times a year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificlegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Hanke-and-Yoo-v.-Secretary-Cardona-complaint.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a>. The lawsuit said that it was a violation of the law for bureaucrats to refuse to seat a presidential appointee.<\/p>\n<p>While a president prematurely removing appointments made by his predecessors has not historically been done, the suit did not argue that Biden does not have the legal right to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current Administration has the power to remove members of the Board, but the rule of law and separation of powers principles require accountability and transparency for those choices,\u201d it said. However, \u201cIt may not obstruct the work of the NBES by simply ignoring the valid appointment of Plaintiffs by the prior Administration and refusing to convene the NBES to begin its statutorily required work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe requirement that commissions be timely delivered is one of the oldest Supreme Court precedents in the nation\u2019s history. In 1803, the high court ruled in Marbury v. Madison that failing to deliver such commissions is unlawful,\u201d their lawyers, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificlegal.org\/press-release\/nine-months-late-and-facing-a-federal-lawsuit-dept-of-education-complies-with-law\/\">Pacific Legal Foundation<\/a>, said.<\/p>\n<p>On September 3, the Biden administration finally acknowledged that Hanke and Yoo were, in fact, appointed to the jobs \u2014 then terminated them.<\/p>\n<p>Similar occurred with Defense Department advisory boards. In February, soon after Biden took office, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-cabinet-955195c9b57f3139d9082924975aa3f0\">suspended<\/a> boards. Early this month, he agreed to restart some \u2014 with Trump appointees purged.<\/p>\n<p>Those include boards that oversee service academies that train future military members, whose members are appointed to three-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Jonathan Hiler, a member of the board of visitors of the U.S. Naval Academy, received a demand that he resign, or be fired by the end of the day. He refused to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Hiler told The Daily Wire that suspending the service academy boards was \u201cin keeping with the Biden administration trying to politicize the military, minimize input from perceived political enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cthey fulfill an oversight function\u2026 the service academy boards have historically enjoyed a good bit of collegiality and bipartisanship, it\u2019s not something a president traditionally comes in and wipes out\u201d before their three-year terms expire.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/08\/biden-fires-trump-trio-from-naval-academy-board\/\">New York Post<\/a> reported that all Trump appointees to service academies had received the ultimatum. One appointee told the paper it was \u201cunprecedented,\u201d and that Trump did not do the same thing with Barack Obama\u2019s appointees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this complete purge shows that the administration is hellbent on the woke mob controlling or having input into military education. Otherwise, why do it?\u201d the soon-to-be-ex-official said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/west-point-teaching-marxism-military-official-says-left-wing-courses-revealed\">West Point Teaching \u2018Marxism,\u2019 Military Official Says; Left-Wing Courses Revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki pointed to clearly political appointees, such as Kellyanne Conway. But the list also included those whose qualifications for such a position would seem to be clear, such as HR McMaster, who is set to receive the West Point \u201cdistinguished graduate\u201d award.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Petrelius, a special assistant to the president in the Office of Presidential Personnel who issued some of the ultimatums, did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire about the criteria and the rationale for the departure from norms.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/behind-bidens-firing-of-a-trump-appointed-lawyer-from-a-top-civil-rights-post\">demanded<\/a> that a Trump appointee to the Equal Opportunity Commission in the position of general counsel, Sharon Gustafon, resign or be fired, in a move that legal observers said fell into a legal gray area.<\/p>\n<p>Republican EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas said the appointment was for a fixed term that intentionally did not align with presidential administrations. \u201cThis is one of the ways Congress ensured that the agency remains bipartisan and, true to its structure, independent,\u201d Lucas previously told The Daily Wire. President Biden\u2019s decision \u201cinfused politics where it is not supposed to be,\u201d the Republican commissioner said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Peter Robb under similar circumstances, well before his term was set to expire in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><em><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe#plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Want more exclusive Daily Wire investigations? <\/a><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe#plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member<\/a><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe#plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joe Biden administration is purging the federal government\u2019s constellation of advisory boards and commissions of Donald Trump appointees, even though such people are typically appointed to fixed terms and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}