Andrew Hsu
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 8 Dec
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Including, she says, laws that say the president can only remove officers for cause.
She says all the presidents since FDR have agreed with this setup until now.
Now, on Friday, the D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the firings of two other independent agency members, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board.
The court found that because those agencies wield significant executive powers, the 1935 president doesn't apply.
Well, there will probably be talk about another independent agency, the Federal Reserve.
Many people have warned that if the Supreme Court says the president can fire FTC commissioners for any reason, then he can also fire members of the Fed, which would send the economy into chaos.
Now, conservative justices on the Supreme Court have called the Fed a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity with a distinct history.
suggesting they might create a special carve-out.
There's actually a whole separate case on this, which the court will hear later this month.
You're welcome.
Yeah, it was originally filed by several labor unions that represent federal workers who have been fired over the last several weeks. So nurses at the VA, for example, or people who worked for the Forest Service. These were employees who were still on probationary status, meaning usually their first or second year in that job.
And a lot of them were told that they were being fired for performance reasons, even though many of them had gotten positive performance reviews and some weren't even on the job long enough to get a review.
So the labor unions are arguing that the agencies themselves had no plans to fire these employees and only did so at the direction of the administration and specifically the Office of Personnel Management.
Yeah, OPM is the agency that handles HR functions for the federal workforce. But to be clear, its role is to provide guidance to agencies about how to hire and fire employees. It doesn't have the authority to actually hire and fire employees of other agencies. But under this administration, OPM has taken on... far bigger role.
For instance, you remember that mass email that went out to the entire federal workforce last weekend asking, you know, what did you do last week? That came from OPM. And in fact, this lawsuit also includes a complaint about this email.
The unions argue that OPM exceeded its authority in asking the entire federal workforce to report back what they accomplished, and also in telling agencies to fire their probationary employees. President Trump has repeat heatedly argued that he's revamping the federal workforce in order to save American taxpayers money and to clean up fraud and waste.
But the union's attorneys say there's a way to go about doing that legally, and this is not it.
Yeah, these are six employees at different federal agencies who were fired about two weeks ago. And they were part of a separate complaint that a different set of attorneys brought to the Office of Special Counsel. That's the federal watchdog agency that's responsible for protecting federal workers from illegal actions by the government.
So the special counsel began looking into these firings and found evidence that agencies hadn't followed proper procedures for firing them. And the special counsel asked a separate federal board to issue a stay. And on Tuesday night this week, the board granted that and ordered these six workers reinstated through April 10th so that the special counsel's investigation can continue.
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