Michael Miller: Protect Civil Service Laws
Michael H. Miller from Pasadena, CA is a retired attorney and member of the Society for the Rule of Law.
He published a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times regarding the Trump administration’s firing of federal employees. He writes:
I support UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s position on protecting certain federal agency executives from arbitrary firings by the current president …
Chemerinsky pointed out that current law provides that department heads can be disciplined, which includes termination. But that must be done for cause — in other words, with actual reasons tied to the job rather than the whims of the president …
Civil service laws replaced the corrupt spoils system, where presidents used government jobs to reward their interests, friends and financial supporters. You can only imagine what that did to America and will do again if we go backward.
This has already started, so watch out.
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