Louis DeJoy is still Postmaster General

[Mysterian]

All of Biden's new board members have been confirmed. Why is there still a fight to get the corrupt Trump ally DeJoy out of office? Why are we still paying DeJoy $303,000 to sabotage USPS?

Please contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to get traitor DeJoy OUT NOW!

https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/pascrell-wants-dejoy-out-as-postmaster-general/

https://www.ali.org/news/articles/anton-hajjar-confirmed-postal-board-governors/

[The Wielding Truth]

1. So what does it take to remove him?

[brooklynite]

2. A majority vote by the postal Board...

Contacting your representatives in Congress will achieve nothing.

[Mysterian]

11. Wrong

Congress, our national legislature, still has considerable influence in the operations of our government.

[brooklynite]

14. Explain what clout the Congress has on the Postal Board of Governors

There is a majority Democratic Board; one of them will not vote to fire him. How will Congress change his mind?

[Mysterian]

16. Representatives and senators can join with Rep. Pascrell and make it a priority for the President

to take action.

Now, please explain what clout doing nothing has on the Postal Board of Governors.

[brooklynite]

17. The President cannot "take action"...

He cannot dismiss members of the Postal Board except for cause.

Notwithstanding the last four years, the President cannot do whatever he/she wants.

[questionseverything]

19. There is cause

Dejoy is deliberately slowing the mail

That’s illegal

I would prefer dejoy was arrested but I could accept fired

Regular, working class people need the postal service to operate in a professional, timely manner (as it did before dejoy took over)

[brooklynite]

21. What statute says the mail must be delivered as a specified speed?

Given the choice between accepting the opinion of the Biden Administration and the opinion of bloggers as to what “can” be done, I’ll go with Biden.

[questionseverything]

23. I would expect no more from you or president Biden

And for the same reason, neither of you understand how important mail delivery is ….not everyone wants to deliver payments electronically , what we used to only have to allow a couple days to reach destination now takes weeks

The statue says “to slow”

I have seen it posted dozens of times here at du and I am sure you have too

[Mysterian]

20. Of course he can

The USPS is in crisis mode because of DeJoy's "leadership. As Representative Pascrell cogently noted, there is justifiable cause to remove any governing board member who continues to support an incompetent and intentionally destructive Postmaster General.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/17/us-postal-service-crisis-pelosi-recalls-house-early-to-fight-election-sabotage

Would republicans sue to reverse anything Biden does? Certainly. That should not stop the President from removing any compromised board members.

[brooklynite]

22. And if President.Biden and his legal advisers disagree with Pascrell?

[Mysterian]

26. They can choose to not remove members of the board and allow DeJoy to continue destroying USPS

But throughout our nation's history, presidents have taken actions that were certain to be challenged in court, including all of the New Deal legislation (when the Supreme Court was hostile to FDR). The crisis at USPS due to a corrupt Postmaster General requires aggressive action by the President. DeJoy is an unrepentant supporter of fascist Donald Trump. Congress can put political pressure on the President to act. That's why I urge everyone to contact their representatives and demand that DeJoy be removed.

[lagomorph777]

4. Maybe a criminal investigation?

I don't get it. Joe has his board now. They need to be told to fire the saboteur.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. There is still one Trump-appointed Democrat on the board

I believe his term is up in a couple months.

[lagomorph777]

18. Ah, that's right - forgot about the fake Dem on the board.

We have state elections coming up in VA, NJ, and probably elsewhere - need to get this done, to protect those elections.

[dsp3000]

27. Ron Bloom- Trump appointed Democrat, his term will expire in Dec 2021 according to wikipedia

[Mysterian]

7. A vote by the Board of Governors

which now has a 5-4 Democratic majority. Congress and the President should urge the board to do this. If they don't then the President should take the advice of Congressman Pacrell and replace board members who continue to support DeJoy, despite the ongoing disaster at USPS. It's time to do whatever is necessary to rid our government of traitorous Trump supporters.

Democrats who fear this scenario have pushed Biden to fire some or all of the current board members, allowing him to install a whole new slate of governors committed to removing DeJoy. This plan faces a major hurdle: Federal law allows Biden to terminate governors “only for cause.” Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell has argued that the president already has cause to fire the current board because it violated its legal duty to “represent the public interest.” According to Pascrell, the governors’ “refusal to oppose the worst destruction ever inflicted on the Postal Service was a betrayal of their duties and unquestionably constitutes good cause for their removal.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/biden-cannot-fire-usps-louis-dejoy.html

[The Wielding Truth]

9. There certainly is cause to remove DeJoy. Let's get to it!

[Ohio Joe]

3. K & R - This is an important OP

Contact your reps and do us all a favor.

[samsingh]

6. he's disgusting and i think a crook

[quaint]

8. The postmaster general is the second-highest paid U.S. government official

per Wikipedia

[fescuerescue]

13. Really? At only $303,000 ?

That's alot of money for sure.

But I'm surprised that's only #2.

What about all the doctors and surgeons working for the VA? $303k is chump change for a surgeon.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. if tfg could fire anyone at whim , why cant biden. all trum and bush appointees , please tender your

[brooklynite]

15. The Postmaster General does not serve at the pleasure of the President.

[Celerity]

12. Biden's USPS board nominees aren't likely to oust embattled postmaster DeJoy, insiders say

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bidens-usps-board-nominees-oust-embattled-postmaster-dejoy/story?id=77217311

Critics of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy hoped Thursday's confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden's three nominees to the U.S. Postal Service's governing board would mark the beginning of the end for the embattled mail chief. But even if Biden's picks are approved by the Senate, industry insiders suspect the board is unlikely to have enough votes to oust DeJoy, in part because its chairman -- Ron Bloom, a Trump-appointed Democrat -- has recently expressed strong support for the postmaster general.

"Right now, I think [DeJoy] is the proper man for the job," Bloom told The Atlantic this week. "He's earned my support, and he will have it until he doesn't. And I have no particular reason to believe he will lose it." Tapped to lead the Postal Service last summer, DeJoy's tumultuous tenure has been marked by intense partisan scrutiny and an ill-fated reform effort that slowed mail service ahead of the 2020 election. Last month, DeJoy formally unveiled a controversial 10-year plan that would cut costs and lengthen delivery times, prompting renewed calls from Democrats for his dismissal.

Despite the sustained scrutiny of DeJoy, Bloom told lawmakers in February that "the board of governors believes the postmaster general, in very difficult circumstances, is doing a good job." Bloom, a former Obama administration official, has also taken on a key role in selling DeJoy's 10-year plan to Congress and other postal stakeholders.

"The current governors selected DeJoy, and given Chairman Bloom's recent hearing appearance, it looks like [DeJoy] still has very solid support there," Michael Plunkett, the president of PostCom, an alliance of postal consumers, told ABC News.


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[Duppers]

24. K & R

[hunter]

25. Hopefully he's encapsulated like a foreign body reaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_body_reaction