Why didn't trump fire comey on jan 20?

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Clean slate with his own guy?

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Check the newsreel for Comey related events at the end of October/start of November.

False, FBI director can be fired at any time. Bill Clinton did it in1993

Well, any widow to fire Comey has passed now.

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He can't. Comey has a set term.

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This.

If Comey were to get "fired" he would have to be impeached by congress .

Comey was appointed in 2013. His term is up 2023. It's a 10 year term.

Bill Clinton fired FBI director William sessions on July 19, 1993 who was 5 years or so into a 10 year term. Vince foster found dead on July 20, 1993.

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If Comey were to get "fired" he would have to be impeached by congress .

Comey was appointed in 2013. His term is up 2023. It's a 10 year term.

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Some of you people are so ignorant. Comey does have a contract. Doesn't take impeachment to get rid of him. And impeachment is not the same as removing someone.

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Indeed, one director in the Bureau’s history – former federal judge William S. Sessions – was fired for ethical reasons by President Bill Clinton in the summer of 1993, a little more than halfway through a 10-year appointment. The President’s public explanation was that there had been a loss of confidence in Sessions’ leadership. Then-Attorney General Janet Reno recommended the dismissal.

It is sometimes assumed that the President can oust an FBI director only “for cause” – that is, for some misconduct in office. But, as a Congressional Research Service study of the director’s office pointed out two years ago, “there are no statutory conditions on the President’s authority to remove the FBI director.”

The constitutional reality is that, if a government official is clearly placed within the Executive Branch, that official serves at the pleasure of the President, and can be fired “at will.” That history has had a recent illustration: earlier this month, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., struck down part of a law by which Congress created a single director to lead the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau – a law that specified that the director could be removed by the President only “for cause.”

The appeals court simply deleted that phrase from the law, thus making the agency’s head subject to being fired by the President for any reason, or no reason at all. (The government has not yet indicated whether it will challenge that ruling in further appeals, perhaps to the Supreme Court.)

That is very much in line with what the Supreme Court has ruled over the years, to preserve the power of the President to be fully in charge of the Executive Branch. Since 1968, a federal law has provided that the head of the FBI will have a 10-year term in office. But the situation legally is that the chance to serve a full term depends upon retaining the confidence of the President.

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The FBI has a very positive image with much of the American public, and that has always supported its authority. Even though a director is subject to being dismissed at the President’s choice, it has always been apparent that there are political risks in doing so. When the FBI director was fired in 1993, President Clinton felt obliged to order a full investigation of complaints and waited for a recommendation from Attorney General Reno.

Director Sessions’ dismissal did draw protests from some members of Congress, but the lawmakers took no action to block the appointment of a successor after the firing.

Under the 1968 law that for the first time required Senate approval of a new FBI director’s appointment by the President, any director is restricted to serving only a single term of 10 years, unless Congress passes specific new legislation to keep the director on the job. That has happened only once under the 1968 law, in 2011, when Congress passed a law to allow Robert S. Mueller a second term specifically limited to two years.

Aside from being subject to removal by a President, the FBI director, like all “civil officers of the United States,” can be ousted from office if charged with “high crimes and misdemeanors” by the House of Representatives and removed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate.

The Constitution does not define what “high crimes and misdemeanors” can lead to impeachment, but it has become clear from historical practice that this depends entirely on what the House believes would qualify.

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National Constitutional Center

Because Comey inadvertently put him in the WH

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Because Comey inadvertently put him in the WH

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Whatever you have to tell yourself, honey.

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Bill Clinton fired FBI director William sessions on July 19, 1993 who was 5 years or so into a 10 year term. Vince

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Not saying Bill Clinton didn't fire him but don't FBI directors serve 5 year terms?