!!! Biden fired four of Trump’s awful appointees to @acusgov, an obscure but important agency with a lot of influence over the federal regulatory process. One of them, Roger Severino—Trump’s anti-LGBTQ warrior at HHS—is suing.

Complaint:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20470254/2-3-21-severino-v-biden-complaint.pdf h/t @ZoeTillman
These are the four people Biden kicked out of @acusgov. They’re all conservative activists, though Severino is the most notorious. He took radical steps to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care at HHS, though the courts blocked his signature anti-LGBTQ rule.
These are the four people Biden kicked out of @acusgov. They’re all conservative activists, though Severino is the most notorious. He took radical steps to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care at HHS, though the courts blocked his signature anti-LGBTQ rule.
These are the four people Biden kicked out of @acusgov. They’re all conservative activists, though Severino is the most notorious. He took radical steps to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care at HHS, though the courts blocked his signature anti-LGBTQ rule.
These are the four people Biden kicked out of @acusgov. They’re all conservative activists, though Severino is the most notorious. He took radical steps to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care at HHS, though the courts blocked his signature anti-LGBTQ rule.
These are the four people Biden kicked out of @acusgov. They’re all conservative activists, though Severino is the most notorious. He took radical steps to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination in health care at HHS, though the courts blocked his signature anti-LGBTQ rule.
Another Trump-appointed council member whom Biden fired from ACUS, Andrew Kloster, infamously tweeted that Asia Argento is “literally trying to suck the life force from men,” condemning her as the “classic satanic ideal.” (Of course Trump put him in the government.)
Now on the hilarious part.

Roger Severino is an arch-conservative. A Federalist Society stalwart. Yet his lawsuit alleges the Biden lacks the power to remove an official within the executive branch—a total betrayal of the “unitary executive” theory that his movement promotes.
What’s especially pathetic, though, is that federal law doesn’t even protect Roger Severino from removal. He’s an at-will employee! He wants the federal judiciary to go beyond the text of the statute and find, in its penumbra, an implicit protection against removal. It is insane.
Anyway I know this is sort of arcane but (a) it’s really funny and amazing that Biden ousted Trump’s genuinely horrible ACUS holdovers, and (b) it’s even funnier that Roger “Smear the Queer” Severino is betraying his conservative principles in a doomed effort to save his job.
(c) arguably the weirdest part is that Roger Severino’s lawyer is Jonathan Mitchell—the anti-union, anti-LGBTQ activist who is bitter because Trump nominated him to chair ACUS but the Senate never confirmed him. Now he’s trying to get revenge by making Biden look bad, I guess?
Anyway, Biden is systematically removing Trump’s terrible holdovers from the executive branch, agency by agency, at an impressive clip—including the really odious ones Trump tried to burrow in. This👇was just yesterday! The man is on a mission. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/biden-fires-trump-union-busters-federal-service-impasses-panel.html
Biden Ousts All 10 of Trump’s Union Busters From Powerful Labor Panel

The Federal Service Impasses Panel played a key role in Trump’s assault on federal unions.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/biden-fires-trump-union-busters-federal-service-impasses-panel.html
PS This is Severino’s substantive argument, which seems to suggest that ACUS is part of no branch of government, but instead sits outside the executive branch on some heavenly plane ... it is bonkers, BONKERS, just eye-melting galaxy-brain-level drivel. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20470254/2-3-21-severino-v-biden-complaint.pdf
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