The impeachment process has entirely changed due to the 24-hour news cycle and rise of social media. According to employment lawyer Tom Spiggle, the foundation of the United States government was never designed to handle this rapid-attack news cycle.
The growth of technology and social media also plays a major role, which is not something that could have been anticipated when the impeachment process was being written. It seems that the process has been taking a longer amount of time with the 24-hour news cycle.
“I think our founders did a very good job with the impeachment process and I would not endeavor to tinker with it much,” Spiggle said. “One aspect that the founders could not have foreseen is our 24 hour news cycle and the rapid attack, counter attack for opposing side that we see down. Our court system is generally not built to handle that speed. If I were to make any change it would be for an expedited review of any legal challenge brought by the legislative or executive branch in an impeach proceeding.”
With social media and the 24-hour news cycle, the president would not be able to operate in a typical business setting if he continued to act the way he does.
Spiggle recently published an article in Forbes called “Here’s How the Impeachment Would Playout if Trump was CEO of a Company.” Spiggle works to protect the rights of people in the workplace.
“I meant my article to offer some food for thought for how we might judge the president’s behavior,” Spiggle said. “Also to make it clear, for any senior management tempted to emulate the president, that such conduct would almost certainly land him or her in court.”
In Spiggle’s opinion, Trump would’ve been kicked out of the office immediately, no questions asked. Spiggle believes this would happen via employer retaliation.
“Retaliation is any activity by an employer designed to punish an employee for raising issues of discrimination, or other unlawful workplace behavior, on behalf of herself or others. This definition includes any punishment by the employer that is designed to stifle reports of unlawful behavior on by employees,” Spiggle said. “Firing an employee for opposing sexual harassment is a clear example.”
Spiggle in no way condones the president’s behavior; however, he does believe in the laws the United States has in place to go through the impeachment process.
“I would not change the law to subject a president to the same workplace laws that a CEO, for instance, has to comply with,” Spiggle said. “Such a system would be unworkable. In this instance, it is up for the American people to fire the president, for conduct that, in any other setting, would be intolerable.”
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The impeachment process has entirely changed due to the 24-hour news cycle and rise of social media. According to employment lawyer Tom Spiggle, the foundation of the United States government was never designed to handle this rapid-attack news cycle.
The growth of technology and social media also plays a major role, which is not something that could have been anticipated when the impeachment process was being written. It seems that the process has been taking a longer amount of time with the 24-hour news cycle.
“I think our founders did a very good job with the impeachment process and I would not endeavor to tinker with it much,” Spiggle said. “One aspect that the founders could not have foreseen is our 24 hour news cycle and the rapid attack, counter attack for opposing side that we see down. Our court system is generally not built to handle that speed. If I were to make any change it would be for an expedited review of any legal challenge brought by the legislative or executive branch in an impeach proceeding.”
With social media and the 24-hour news cycle, the president would not be able to operate in a typical business setting if he continued to act the way he does.
Spiggle recently published an article in Forbes called “Here’s How the Impeachment Would Playout if Trump was CEO of a Company.” Spiggle works to protect the rights of people in the workplace.
“I meant my article to offer some food for thought for how we might judge the president’s behavior,” Spiggle said. “Also to make it clear, for any senior management tempted to emulate the president, that such conduct would almost certainly land him or her in court.”
In Spiggle’s opinion, Trump would’ve been kicked out of the office immediately, no questions asked. Spiggle believes this would happen via employer retaliation.
“Retaliation is any activity by an employer designed to punish an employee for raising issues of discrimination, or other unlawful workplace behavior, on behalf of herself or others. This definition includes any punishment by the employer that is designed to stifle reports of unlawful behavior on by employees,” Spiggle said. “Firing an employee for opposing sexual harassment is a clear example.”
Spiggle in no way condones the president’s behavior; however, he does believe in the laws the United States has in place to go through the impeachment process.
“I would not change the law to subject a president to the same workplace laws that a CEO, for instance, has to comply with,” Spiggle said. “Such a system would be unworkable. In this instance, it is up for the American people to fire the president, for conduct that, in any other setting, would be intolerable.”