Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order converting approximately 10,000 career federal employee to Schedule Policy/Career (“Schedule P/C”). As a result, these employees lost their due process protections and are now at-will employees. Today, Bloomberg published an article, by Senior Reporter Ian Kullgren and Reporters Celine Castronuovo and Maren Fagan, about the impact on government attorneys. More than 500 legal positions were converted to Schedule P/C. The article, titled “Trump Reclassification Order Targets Hundreds of Legal Roles,” quotes Senior Counsel Jenny Knopinski:
“Civil servants have always been required to implement the policy goal of political leadership,” said Jenny Knopinski, a former attorney advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy. But by no longer allowing affected attorneys to appeal terminations, the order “could certainly make people fearful” of disciplinary action, Knopinski said.
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