Obama Administration backs corrupt VA chieftain
Sharon Helman, the Phoenix, Arizona Veterans’ Affairs director who was at the center of the scandal there two years ago, is suing to get her job back. The Obama Administration is doing their level best to get her back behind hr desk, according to the Stars & Stripes;
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday that the law fast-tracking firings is unconstitutional because VA employees cannot appeal a final decision by an administrative judge.
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The decision by Lynch is new evidence of the VA’s faltering efforts to fire executives and employees when it deems them guilty of misconduct. It also undercuts a key reform passed by Congress in the months following the nationwide VA scandal, which erupted after a doctor in Phoenix said veterans were dying while waiting for care at the facilities overseen by Helman.
The Obama administration is sending the message that “the sanctity of a federal bureaucrat’s job is far more important than the health and well-being of our veterans,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona….
Veterans have been a political ping-pong ball for both parties, but McCain is right in this instance – what’s the priority here? Caring for the injured or propping up the bureaucracy?
Lynch said the Justice Department will no longer defend the law in court against Helman and other challengers. But the Justice Department will continue to defend against the other constitutional violations charged in Helman’s federal lawsuit.
Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, said the loss of the reform law will allow “the Merit Systems Protection Board to continue second-guessing VA’s efforts to discipline senior executives.”
There’s your answer.
Thanks to Hack Stone for the link.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Do I look surprised?
Use ’em up, fuck ’em over, then leave ’em where they lay. That’s the VA’s and the Obama administration’s opinion of veterans.
And remember, boys and girls, not only was/is Bernie the Red in charge of oversight, but wanted to vastly expand thus already overly bloated bureaucracy.
So how’s that government run healthcare working out for you, Obots?
“We only enforce the laws and parts of the Constitution we agree with. Anything else is bullshit.”
The second most racist AG in history is going to have to explain to this dimwit what Constitutional Right to a job was violated
That’s what civil service laws & unions get you.
Eliminate both. It is self-evident by now that it’s easy to pack any department with the politically reliable, so why continue the fiction of disinterested professionals?
Bills that become law do not write themselves. They are drafted by attorneys employed by the House or Senates Office of Legislative Counsel. They are gone over by many sets of legal eyes before being passed and sent on to the White House. There, the proposed law is scrutinized by more legal beagles. If it is signed by the president, it becomes law on its effective date. The law may face legal challenges, but it is the job of the AG to defend against those challenges. In this case, despite the layers of review that the fast-track firing law underwent, the AG unilaterally has determined that the law is unconstitutional and that it will not be defended by her office. That’s great. Just great.