Case Files tagged: "Civil-Service"

The administration creates a legal 'catch-22' for purged civil servants: dismissal letters direct them to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which the President effectively destroyed by firing its chair and denying it a quorum.

Asserting a blanket constitutional authority to fire career civil servants 'without cause,' the Justice Department executes a targeted purge of ethics advisers, prosecutors who worked on cases against the President, and whistleblowers refusing political orders.