'Plainly Ineligible to Serve': US Judge Disqualifies Trump Ally in Voice of America Litigation
"Only the Appointments Clause or the Vacancies Act's exclusive structure may authorize service as a principal officer, and [Kari] Lake satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution," U.S. District Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote in a decision invalidating Lake's service as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Lake's attempt to gut Voice of America's workforce.
Judge Rejects Leadership Plan for New Jersey US Attorney's Office
"With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this district potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The government tells us: the president doesn't like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants," Judge Matthew Brann wrote.

