一名联邦法官周四下午表示，她不太可能恢复八名前监察长的职务被特朗普政府解雇一月份，即使总统在没有通知国会的情况下解除他们的职务违反了联邦法律。
“即使我发现该法规符合宪法，我也不知道如何恢复IGs，”安娜·雷耶斯法官在华盛顿特区联邦地区法院的听证会上说，该案件由监察长提起，质疑他们的终止。“我认为我们要处理的可能是欠薪，或者类似的事情。”
当雷耶斯法官向司法部的一名律师追问特朗普在未通知国会解雇一事时是否遵守了法律时，这位律师同意，总统没有遵守与终止监察长有关的法规文本。
“没有任何真正的争议，这只是违反了法律，对不对，政府?”雷耶斯法官问道。
“我想说的是，我们不否认总统没有遵守法令中要求国会通知的句子，”DOJ律师杰里米·纽曼说，他认为法律不需要国会通知。
当纽曼试图辩称，通知国会并不是解雇监管机构的必要条件时，雷耶斯法官予以了反驳。
“正如我最近经常被提醒的那样，英语是我的第二语言，但我想我知道一个句子的句号在哪里，”雷耶斯说，然后重复了法律的文本，并暗示她不同意DOJ对它的解释。
“我想你们都同意，这不是一个体面的方式对待任何人，”雷耶斯谈到突然解雇时说。"问题是这是否合法。"
Trump probably 'violated the law' when he fired independent watchdogs, judge says
A federal judge Thursday afternoon said she is unlikely to reinstate eight former inspectors general who werefired by the Trump administrationin January, even if it's determined that president broke federal law when he removed them from their jobs without notifying Congress.
“I do not see how I can reinstate the IGs even if I find that the statute is constitutional,” Judge Ana Reyes said during a hearing in a Washington, D.C. federal district court in a case brought by the inspectors general, challenging their termination. “I think what we would be dealing with maybe would be either back pay, or something of the sort.”
When Judge Reyes pressed a lawyer for the Department of Justice about whether Trump followed the law when he failed to notify Congress about the firings, the attorney agreed that the president did not comply with the text of the statute related to terminating inspectors general.
“There's not any real dispute that that just violated the law, right, government?” Judge Reyes asked.
“What I would say is we don't dispute that the president did not comply with the sentence in the statute calling for congressional notice,” said DOJ attorney Jeremy Newman, who instead argued that the law does not require congressional notice.
When Newman attempted to argue that notifying Congress was not a requirement to fire the watchdogs, Judge Reyes pushed back.
“As I've been reminded a lot recently, English is my second language, but I think I know where a period ends a sentence,” Reyes said before repeating the text of the law and suggesting that she disagreed with the DOJ's interpretation of it.
“I think you can all agree that this is not a decent way to treat anyone,” Reyes said about the sudden firings. “The question is whether it was legal.”
