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Carla Hayden, first woman and African American to serve in role, details firing by Trump administration to CBS

The first woman and African American to serve as the US librarian of Congress before Donald Trump fired her in May has not heard from the president’s administration beyond the 31-word email it sent her with word of her dismissal, she has revealed in her first interview since her ouster.

“No one has talked to me directly at all from the White House,” Carla Hayden says in an interview airing on the upcoming CBS News Sunday Morning. “I’ve received no communication directly, except for that one email.

“That’s the only communication.”

Hayden’s comments to the CBS national correspondent Robert Costa provide a first-hand glimpse at the unceremonious way she was fired from a post to which the US Senate confirmed her in 2016.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I continue to be irritated that legacy media is completely ignoring the fact that the executive branch does not have the legal authority to fire the librarian of Congress, and that the LoC essentially ignored the communique, and (last I heard) she was still in the job and the new guy was being told to fuck off by the entire staff of the Library of Congress, and that he was being refused access.

Edit: apparently that initial refusal has waned? But the fact remains that the White House does not have the authority to do this, and the simple fact that orangeboi did is an extremely blatant power grab (but what isn’t these days)

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

So the question is who caved?