What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...
Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views
The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.
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What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
and there have been comparisons to the spoils system put in place by his presidential hero, Andrew Jackson. It’s an imperfect comparison, as I learned from Daniel Feller, a professor emeritus of ...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
The Danger of an ‘Accidental Aristocracy’
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of ...
A GOP U.S. Attorney Does the Right Thing in Eric Adams' Corruption Case
Trump’s Justice Department’s order to drop charges against New York’s mayor for political reasons threatens the rule of law.