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American Regress and the Rule of Lawless 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, seasoned diplomat and professor of international affairs at the Pennsylvania State University Dennis Jett looks at Republican plans to gut the Civil Service and return to the “spoils system” of the Nineteenth Century. He determines it to be a disastrous idea. Here’s a bit:

(One of the proposals) literally states that any employee of the executive branch “may be subject to any adverse personnel action (up to and including removal) for good cause, bad cause or no cause at all; and may not challenge or otherwise appeal such action.” The only exceptions are for whistleblowers and cases of discrimination where the appeals process established will ensure any complaints fall on deaf ears.

Afterthought:

I can’t but suspect the motive for this is quite simple: to exempt the (next Republican) President from the rule of law.

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