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“Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

“Register Perlmutter is a patriot, and her tenure has propelled the Copyright Office into the 21st century by comprehensively modernizing its operations and setting global standards on the intersection of AI and intellectual property.

“This action once again tramples on Congress’s Article One authority and throws a trillion-dollar industry into chaos. When will my Republican colleagues decide enough is enough?”

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[–] Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world 47 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m sorry but by what authority does the executive branch get to fire a legislative branch employee?

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

the only real authority

"who is going to stop me"

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Unmm any if the hundreds of legislators

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

the law only matters if there are people willing and able to enforce it
the constitution isn't magic, i would have thought libs would have figured that out by now

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

Seems extremely spineless even for them

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do people keep listening to the executive branch? They aren't in charge of the entire government, though they are trying to act like it.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, there was one person that didn't in this article, and they got fired.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

But they aren't under executive branch pervue, the executive branch can say whatever they want and they don't have to listen. If some guy from sales tells you that you're fired, and you work in shipping and receiving, so you listen to them? No, you call your boss and ask who this yahoo is.

[–] 1984 10 points 4 weeks ago

And then you are fired if that sales guy is actually running the show. Politics...

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This makes what happened to Aaron just that much more pointless.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

His ex quoted him as saying 'they don't let felons work in there' referring to the white house. Yeah, they do.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So the president can fire legislative branch employees? Why/how?