<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defended President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to fire 18 inspectors general this week, saying that the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled in Trump&#8217;s favor as it relates to his power to fire federal employees.</p>
<p>Cotton made the remarks during a Sunday interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; when asked about the firings by host Shannon Bream after critics have called the move illegal because Trump did not first notify Congress.</p>
<p>&#8220;Time and time again, the Supreme Court has said that Congress can&#8217;t impose restrictions on the president&#8217;s power to remove officers,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;In President Trump&#8217;s first term, he removed the Director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau despite limitations on the President&#8217;s constitutional power to remove officers, that was litigated at the Supreme Court and the president won.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So ultimately, these inspectors general serve at the pleasure of the President,&#8221; he added. &#8220;He wants new people in there. He wants people who focused on getting out waste and fraud and abuse and reforming these agencies, he has a right to have to get in there who he wants.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked if he thinks that those roles will be filled by Trump, Cotton said: &#8220;I believe so.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When he says he wants to fill those offices, maybe he won&#8217;t fill them immediately, because there&#8217;s an entire administration to staff, and he may have other priorities, but I think the President&#8217;s inherent power to remove officers will be upheld if it&#8217;s challenged in court, as it has been time and again for Democratic and Republican Presidents alike,&#8221; he said.</p>
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