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Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Fed Workers Aims At A Century Of Legal Precedent

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December 7, 2020 4:00 p.m.

As we continue reporting on the Trump administration’s closing attack against federal employees, experts and lawyers repeatedly cite an unusually old law: The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.

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