Can Louis DeJoy (USPS Postmaster) be removed via impeachment for

[no_hypocrisy]

interfering with the free flow of mail (violation of the Commerce Clause)? Are there enough Republicans for a vote?

[Loki Liesmith]

1. No

You watched the impeachment vote right?

[Sherman A1]

2. I suppose anything is possible

But I don’t see it happening.

[RDANGELO]

3. Probably the most that they can do is hold some public hearings and embarass the hell out of them.

Then maybe something can get done.

[brooklynite]

4. Define - on a statutory basis - how he's interfering...

[no_hypocrisy]

5. By slowing down the free flow of mail, DeJoy

is interfering with interstate commerce, e.g, paychecks arriving late, bills arriving late, payments arriving late, legal notices arriving late, commercial mail (sales during a limited time) arriving late, etc.

[brooklynite]

7. Where is there a rule that defines how quickly mail is supposed to be deliverd?

Add to which, the PO hasn't "slowed down the mail", it's simply said that it won't approve overtime.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. It would be inferred by the statements of the PM that he turned off the machines that sort the mail

and canceled necessary overtime. The rule would be the Commerce Clause. My guess is this is a case of first impression.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. No, but we can stick a stamp on his forehead and stuff him head first into a mailbox.

Address him to some village in deepest Africa with no roads or airports.

[beachbumbob]

9. not without having 67 democratic senators, any removal on trump/admin officials via

impeachment is impossible. BUT holding impeachment hearings could be effective and sending articles of impeachment to McConnel senate to do nothing would be a PR boom

[maxrandb]

10. Sure, the Retrumplicans in the Senate will get right on that

[no_hypocrisy]

11. They *may*, provided that enough of their business constituents feel financial pain

and lawsuits from impossibly slow mail.

[SpaceNeedle]

12. He won't be impeached but

House can hold "impeachment hearings" invoking the interstate commerce clause and have a hearing twice a week for a few hours which will be on all the networks.

Have ex postal workers and other figures testify and never let Le Joy testify. Just build up a story that the mail cannot be trusted because it is being deliberately sabotaged by Trump and his cronies.

Then sometime after the election, Le Joy can testify.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Is Writ of Mandamus applicable ?

He's not actually refusing to do his job, just ordering people not to do their jobs as well as they could. That might be a stretch.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. I was thinking similar thoughts. Marbury v. Madison precedent.