Crux of the issue
With the final results of the US election pending potentially days’ worth of counting and Donald Trump’s expressed desire for a Supreme Court challenge, a recent executive order threatens to expand the president’s ability to fire career civil servants and — even if Joe Biden wins and Trump only has until January — further hollow out federal institutions.
The debate: unions, Democrats fight executive order
On October 21, Donald Trump issued an executive order that would strip civil service’s due process protections from career federal employees working on executive branch policy.
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