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How Civil Servants Can Invoke Their Due Process Rights to Reverse the Trump Administration’s Mass Firings

The Trump Administration is unleashing an unprecedented assault on the federal civil service. Even though civil servants enjoy removal protections under federal law, the Administration is mass-firing tens of thousands of civil servants nevertheless. The Administration’s decision to ignore these statutory protections is not surprising, given that the Supreme Court has constructed an increasingly muscular conception of the president’s […]

The IRS-ICE Deal Threatens All Workers 

Since early February, the Trump Administration has been pressuring the Internal Revenue Service to support the deportation of undocumented immigrants. In April, court filings showed that the I.R.S. ultimately capitulated, signing a “Memorandum of Understanding” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Although the agreement was heavily redacted, an anonymous ICE official told Politico Pro that the “[I.R.S.’s] data would likely improve […]

The Lawsuit That Could Strip Over a Million Immigrants of Their Labor Protections

In its final minutes in power, the increasingly anti-immigrant Biden administration snuck in a buzzer-beating act of mercy: extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from four countries. In early February, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security reversed these protections, threatening roughly a million immigrants with the loss of their legal status.  The gravity of the […]

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