Civil service 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/28/2020
The Transition Is Already Happening (And It’s Going Fine So Far)
by Kate Shaw and Michael Eric Herz
"The civil service—technocratic, objective, neutral, and around for the long haul—is an insurance policy in many ways, of which its central role in the transition is just one."
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SOURCE: Defense One
10/22/2020
‘Stunning’ Executive Order Enables Politicized Civil Service
Trump's executive order would make political loyalty, rather than expertise, experience or skill, the main criteria for retention in a new category of Federal jobs, potentially destabilizing the Federal civil service.
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10/4/2020
Loyalty and Duty in the Federal Bureaucracy, From Nixon to Trump
by Michael Koncewicz
Independent civil servants checked Richard Nixon's worst impulses to use the executive branch to punish enemies. The independence of the bureaucracy has since eroded, to Donald Trump's advantage.
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SOURCE: Forbes
8/26/2020
Here's Why Trump Officials Rarely Face Penalties For Hatch Act Violations
By hosting part of the GOP convention at the White House, the Trump administration is accused of violating the 1939 federal ethics law.
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4/26/2020
Trump's Quislings
by David Driesen
Autocrats use law not to achieve the laws’ objectives, but to subdue opposition and bolster their supporters. If Trump remains in office, America will likely lose its freedom through these forces.
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4/12/2020
Woman Citizen: On This Day in 1920 Helen Hamilton Gardener Became the Highest-Ranking Woman in Federal Government
by Kimberly A. Hamlin
Gardener’s historic appointment as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner marked one symbolic step toward the idea that women should be universally recognized as “self- respecting, self- directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own.”
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