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US Politics

Trump's Political Takeover of Federal Hiring Threatens Our Democratic Foundations

President Trump's new executive order replaces the expired hiring freeze with a system requiring political appointees to approve all federal hiring through strategic committees. This dangerous politicization of the non-partisan civil service represents an alarming assault on democratic institutions and threatens to turn our government into a political patronage system.

US Politics

Judicial Rebuke: Trump Administration Violated Federal Workers' Constitutional Rights

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated First Amendment rights by using furloughed workers' email accounts to send partisan messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. This reprehensible violation of civil servants' constitutional rights represents a dangerous erosion of nonpartisanship in our federal government and must be condemned by all who value democracy.