#mspb — Public Fediverse posts
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The ofcls include Rebecca Slaughter, whose firing from the #FTC is at issue in the current case, as well as ofcls from the #NLRB, #MSPB & #CPSC.
The only ofcls who have so far survived efforts to remove them are Lisa Cook, a #FederalReserve governor, & Shira Perlmutter, a #LibraryOfCongress copyright ofcl. #SCOTUS already has suggested that it will view the Fed differently from other #independent agencies, & #Trump has said he wants her out because of allegations of mortgage fraud.
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Also, some #MSPB actions currently in process are frozen. For example, the #USDS employees illegally fired on February 14 reached a settlement with the government immediately before the shutdown, and that settlement has a specific timeline for payout, but the clock is frozen until the shutdown ends.
That's small potatoes for me since I found a new job pretty quickly, but a big deal for my colleagues who didn't or who may even be still unemployed nine months later.
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#politics #USPol #shutdown -
Also, some #MSPB actions currently in process are frozen. For example, the #USDS employees illegally fired on February 14 reached a settlement with the government immediately before the shutdown, and that settlement has a specific timeline for payout, but the clock is frozen until the shutdown ends.
That's small potatoes for me since I found a new job pretty quickly, but a big deal for my colleagues who didn't or who may even be still unemployed nine months later.
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#politics #USPol #shutdown -
Also, some #MSPB actions currently in process are frozen. For example, the #USDS employees illegally fired on February 14 reached a settlement with the government immediately before the shutdown, and that settlement has a specific timeline for payout, but the clock is frozen until the shutdown ends.
That's small potatoes for me since I found a new job pretty quickly, but a big deal for my colleagues who didn't or who may even be still unemployed nine months later.
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#politics #USPol #shutdown -
Also, some #MSPB actions currently in process are frozen. For example, the #USDS employees illegally fired on February 14 reached a settlement with the government immediately before the shutdown, and that settlement has a specific timeline for payout, but the clock is frozen until the shutdown ends.
That's small potatoes for me since I found a new job pretty quickly, but a big deal for my colleagues who didn't or who may even be still unemployed nine months later.
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#politics #USPol #shutdown -
Also, some #MSPB actions currently in process are frozen. For example, the #USDS employees illegally fired on February 14 reached a settlement with the government immediately before the shutdown, and that settlement has a specific timeline for payout, but the clock is frozen until the shutdown ends.
That's small potatoes for me since I found a new job pretty quickly, but a big deal for my colleagues who didn't or who may even be still unemployed nine months later.
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#politics #USPol #shutdown -
Note that because the federal government is shut down, the Merit Systems Protection Board ( #MSPB ) is also shut down and not accepting complaints from federal workers. Workers seeking redress for illegal employment actions can't start the process until the shutdown ends.
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TLDR The former U.S. Digital Service (USDS) employees who were improperly fired by DOGE on February 14 have been certified as a class by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and have reached a settlement with the government over their firing. I am a member of the class and stand to benefit from this settlement. Read the whole thread for additional details. Feel free to reply with any questions you have after reading the thread.
#politics #USPol #USDS #DOGE #MSPB
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TLDR The former U.S. Digital Service (USDS) employees who were improperly fired by DOGE on February 14 have been certified as a class by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and have reached a settlement with the government over their firing. I am a member of the class and stand to benefit from this settlement. Read the whole thread for additional details. Feel free to reply with any questions you have after reading the thread.
#politics #USPol #USDS #DOGE #MSPB
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TLDR The former U.S. Digital Service (USDS) employees who were improperly fired by DOGE on February 14 have been certified as a class by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and have reached a settlement with the government over their firing. I am a member of the class and stand to benefit from this settlement. Read the whole thread for additional details. Feel free to reply with any questions you have after reading the thread.
#politics #USPol #USDS #DOGE #MSPB
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TLDR The former U.S. Digital Service (USDS) employees who were improperly fired by DOGE on February 14 have been certified as a class by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and have reached a settlement with the government over their firing. I am a member of the class and stand to benefit from this settlement. Read the whole thread for additional details. Feel free to reply with any questions you have after reading the thread.
#politics #USPol #USDS #DOGE #MSPB
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TLDR The former U.S. Digital Service (USDS) employees who were improperly fired by DOGE on February 14 have been certified as a class by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and have reached a settlement with the government over their firing. I am a member of the class and stand to benefit from this settlement. Read the whole thread for additional details. Feel free to reply with any questions you have after reading the thread.
#politics #USPol #USDS #DOGE #MSPB
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2 other board members of #independent #FederalAgencies asked #SCOTUS to also hear their cases if they took up the Slaughter case: Gwynne Wilcox, of the National Labor Relations Board [#NLRB], & Cathy Harris, of the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB].
The #FTC is a regulator enforcing #consumer protection measures & #antitrust #legislation. The #NLRB investigates unfair #labor practices & oversees #union elections, while the #MSPB reviews disputes from #FederalWorkers.
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#HakeemJeffries has passed the 7 hr mark. He has discussed how #unions & #CollectiveBargaining shaped his own life & reiterated #Democrats’ commitment to unions.
The #OneBigBeautifulBill act harms working Americans in many ways, just one of which is #unlawful #fees on Justice & Unions – it imposes a $350 fee on federal employees to file appeals w/the #MSPB, & charges unions for official time—despite being legally mandated.
#House #Trump #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute
https://nffe.org/nffe_news/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-harmful-to-working-americans-tell-the-senate-to-reject-it/ -
#HakeemJeffries has passed the 7 hr mark. He has discussed how #unions & #CollectiveBargaining shaped his own life & reiterated #Democrats’ commitment to unions.
The #OneBigBeautifulBill act harms working Americans in many ways, just one of which is #unlawful #fees on Justice & Unions – it imposes a $350 fee on federal employees to file appeals w/the #MSPB, & charges unions for official time—despite being legally mandated.
#House #Trump #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute
https://nffe.org/nffe_news/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-harmful-to-working-americans-tell-the-senate-to-reject-it/ -
#HakeemJeffries has passed the 7 hr mark. He has discussed how #unions & #CollectiveBargaining shaped his own life & reiterated #Democrats’ commitment to unions.
The #OneBigBeautifulBill act harms working Americans in many ways, just one of which is #unlawful #fees on Justice & Unions – it imposes a $350 fee on federal employees to file appeals w/the #MSPB, & charges unions for official time—despite being legally mandated.
#House #Trump #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute
https://nffe.org/nffe_news/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-harmful-to-working-americans-tell-the-senate-to-reject-it/ -
#HakeemJeffries has passed the 7 hr mark. He has discussed how #unions & #CollectiveBargaining shaped his own life & reiterated #Democrats’ commitment to unions.
The #OneBigBeautifulBill act harms working Americans in many ways, just one of which is #unlawful #fees on Justice & Unions – it imposes a $350 fee on federal employees to file appeals w/the #MSPB, & charges unions for official time—despite being legally mandated.
#House #Trump #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute
https://nffe.org/nffe_news/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-harmful-to-working-americans-tell-the-senate-to-reject-it/ -
#HakeemJeffries has passed the 7 hr mark. He has discussed how #unions & #CollectiveBargaining shaped his own life & reiterated #Democrats’ commitment to unions.
The #OneBigBeautifulBill act harms working Americans in many ways, just one of which is #unlawful #fees on Justice & Unions – it imposes a $350 fee on federal employees to file appeals w/the #MSPB, & charges unions for official time—despite being legally mandated.
#House #Trump #OneBigUglyBill #MagicMinute
https://nffe.org/nffe_news/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-harmful-to-working-americans-tell-the-senate-to-reject-it/ -
At issue in the dispute over #Trump's dismissals of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB] & Gwynne Wilcox from the National #Labor Relations Board [#NLRB] is whether safeguards passed by #Congress to prevent ofcls in these posts from being fired w/o cause encroach on #PresidentialAuthority set out in the US #Constitution. Harris & Wilcox were appointed by the Republican president's Democratic predecessor Joe #Biden, & both had years left on their terms.
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At issue in the dispute over #Trump's dismissals of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB] & Gwynne Wilcox from the National #Labor Relations Board [#NLRB] is whether safeguards passed by #Congress to prevent ofcls in these posts from being fired w/o cause encroach on #PresidentialAuthority set out in the US #Constitution. Harris & Wilcox were appointed by the Republican president's Democratic predecessor Joe #Biden, & both had years left on their terms.
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At issue in the dispute over #Trump's dismissals of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB] & Gwynne Wilcox from the National #Labor Relations Board [#NLRB] is whether safeguards passed by #Congress to prevent ofcls in these posts from being fired w/o cause encroach on #PresidentialAuthority set out in the US #Constitution. Harris & Wilcox were appointed by the Republican president's Democratic predecessor Joe #Biden, & both had years left on their terms.
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At issue in the dispute over #Trump's dismissals of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB] & Gwynne Wilcox from the National #Labor Relations Board [#NLRB] is whether safeguards passed by #Congress to prevent ofcls in these posts from being fired w/o cause encroach on #PresidentialAuthority set out in the US #Constitution. Harris & Wilcox were appointed by the Republican president's Democratic predecessor Joe #Biden, & both had years left on their terms.
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At issue in the dispute over #Trump's dismissals of Cathy Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB] & Gwynne Wilcox from the National #Labor Relations Board [#NLRB] is whether safeguards passed by #Congress to prevent ofcls in these posts from being fired w/o cause encroach on #PresidentialAuthority set out in the US #Constitution. Harris & Wilcox were appointed by the Republican president's Democratic predecessor Joe #Biden, & both had years left on their terms.
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Will the Supreme Court Crash the Global Economy?
The case in question consolidates two litigations challenging Trump’s firing of commissioners of, respectively,
the National Labor Relations Board, or #NLRB (Wilcox v. Trump),
and the Merit Systems Protection Board, or #MSPB (Harris v. [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent).Both of the terminated officials are covered by ⭐️statutory for-cause-only removal safeguards.
Trump and his legal minions acknowledge that there was no basis for removing either official in the requirements specified in the applicable statutes;
both officials had exemplary performance records, which plainly failed to meet the identical criteria in both statutes that permit removal only for “inefficiency, neglect, or malfeasance.”💥Nonetheless, Trump’s Justice Department lawyers maintain that he can ignore these strictures because the Constitution bars Congress from placing any limits on his ability to fire agency heads for any reason or no reason.
“The President,” Solicitor General John Sauer told the justices in his brief, “should not be forced to delegate his executive power to agency heads who are demonstrably at odds with the Administration’s policy objectives for a single day.”In 2020, when conservative justices comprised a five-justice majority, the court decided 5–4,
♦️in Seila Law v CFPB, that the Constitution mandated at-will status for single-headed executive agencies
—namely, in that case, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.But the decision expressly declined to extend this mandate to multimember “independent” agencies, such as the NLRB and the MSPB.
The justices can no longer dodge that fraught question.On April 7, a 7–4 majority of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s claim.
The majority (consisting of all seven of the court’s judges appointed by Democratic presidents) ruled that a 1935 Supreme Court decision upholding for-cause removal protections for heads of multimember agencies remained binding precedent,
never mind that it has fallen out of favor with their Republican-appointed colleagues and other legal luminaries on the right.The Court of Appeals majority ordered the reinstatement of both of the agency board members Trump had fired, pending the outcome of the litigation.
Two days later, Solicitor General Sauer filed an emergency petition in the Supreme Court seeking reversal of the reinstatement order.
Chief Justice Roberts’s warp-speed grant of Sauer’s petition, three hours after it was filed, was interpreted as merely giving the justices time to mull the weighty issues at stake,
not presaging the result after they complete that process
Sauer asked the court to hear and decide the case in the current term, which expires at the end of June.⚠️Why might a critical mass of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority shrink from letting their ideology propel them to broaden untrammeled presidential firing authority to multiheaded agencies? ❓
Two potential reasons spring to mind:
the real-world consequences of such an extension
and the doctrinal and empirical holes in the undergirding #unitary #executive theory that scholars have exposed since Justice Antonin Scalia first expounded the current version of that concept in 1988.
Of the two, the calamitous-consequences barrier, while as yet only fleetingly acknowledged by the justices, is no doubt the most daunting.
👉In particular, two words give that prospect intimidating force.
Those words are #the #Fed.As legal scholar Stephen Vladeck recently wrote,
🆘“The not-very-well-kept secret is that the justices are (understandably) wary about handing down a ruling that would allow any President, and perhaps this one in particular, to exercise
🔥direct control over U.S. monetary policy by controlling who sits on the Federal Reserve Board.”Since the original Framers’ establishment of the first and, especially, the second Bank of the United States, a broad and bipartisan consensus has hardened,
in the U.S. as well as every industrialized nation,
that an independent central bank with far-reaching powers is essential to maintaining monetary stability and sustaining economic growth.
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The cases before #SCOTUS involve Gwynne Wilcox of the National #Labor Relation Board #NLRB, which oversees laws protecting #workers’ rights, & Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, which protects federal govt workers from #partisan practices — as well as a 90-year-old court #precedent the #Trump admin is seeking to overturn.
#AbuseOfPower #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #Corruption #WatchdogAgencies #whistleblowers
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#Trump asks #SCOTUS to let him break the #law AGAIN – this time by illegally firing #independent #regulators
The cases test the boundaries of #PresidentialPower & involves Gwynne Wilcox of the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB.#AbuseOfPower #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #Corruption #WatchdogAgencies #whistleblowers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/09/trump-supreme-court-fire-independent-regulators/ -
The full DC Circuit in a 7-4 decision set aside a 3-judge panel's March ruling that paused lower court decisions blocking Trump from removing Gwynne Wilcox from the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & Cathy Harris from the #Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB.
Monday's decision puts back in place 2 judges' decisions that upheld federal laws barring #Trump from removing members of the labor boards at will.
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Not good
The United States Court of Appeals for DC has cleared the way for #Trump to fire members of the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, essentially granting Trump authority over formerly "independent" parts of the executive branch.
Judge Millet dissented saying the decision overturned #SCOTUS precedent & disabled the boards from functioning while the case proceeds.
#law #watchdog #whistleblower #USpol
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41769/gov.uscourts.cadc.41769.01208724995.0_1.pdf -
The #DOJ is aiming to get these cases to #SCOTUS, where it’s betting that enough of the right-wing justices will agree to overturn the high court’s own #precedent on #independent agencies — encapsulated primarily in a 1936 case called Humphrey’s Executor — & axe the removal protections that keep leadership at such entities as the #NLRB or #MSPB insulated from political will or vindictiveness.
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#AltNPS
Merit Systems Board Case: A court is holding another hearing on Cathy Harris’ lawsuit against the Trump administration, after she was temporarily reinstated as chair of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board following claims of unlawful termination.
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Dellinger asked the #MSPB this week to halt the dismissal of 6 probationary employees while his office investigates their complaints. Dellinger said the firings appear “contrary to a reasonable reading of the #law” & said he was considering “ways to seek relief for a broader group.”
The merit board granted his request to stay the terminations for 45 days.
#law #NationalSecurity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #SeparationOfPowers
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#Trump’s attempt to fire Dellinger is part of his broader push to remove government #watchdogs who investigate wrongdoing & protect #FederalWorkers. Trump also has tried to fire the head of the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB], an #independent agency that hears appeals of terminations & other adverse actions against #CivilServants. A federal judge reinstated her temporarily. Dellinger’s office refers certain cases to the merit board, which issues its own decisions.
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Good summary of what laid-off federal employees are entitled to. Short answer: pretty much nothing, and no true appeal process either.