The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.

The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent. President Donald Trump has launched a power grab, through executive orders and proclamations. He’s installed the world’ ...

The 47th president says he’ll comply with court decisions. The seventh didn’t always do so.

Within 24 hours of becoming president, Donald Trump released his first White House Fact Sheet, “Ending the Radical and ...

We know this because Trump has always said that he believes "to the victor belongs the spoils" and by that, he apparently ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

Rachel Maddow mocked Donald Trump for thinking he has a “big Trump mandate” for latest threat Trump called for a U.S.-led ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old ...

President Andrew Jackson awarded his friends and punished ... The Pendleton Act, 1883, replaced the spoils system with competitive exams for applicants to qualify for government jobs based on ...