Trump Administration’s Civil Service

American Autocracy Threat Tracker

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Apr 24th, 2024

Trump’s Stated Goals for the U.S. Intelligence Community: Assessing the Impact

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Dec 18th, 2023

Restoring Justice to DOJ

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Jul 15th, 2021

Politicizing the Civil Service: How a New Executive Order Destabilizes the U.S. Government

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Nov 2nd, 2020

Federal Employees’ Liability Risks for Following Illegal Directives to Interfere in 2020 Election

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Oct 28th, 2020

Shaky Hands in the Oval Office

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Oct 9th, 2020

Patriotism and Justice on an Unusual Independence Day

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Jul 3rd, 2020

Redactions in CDC Communications Policies Leave Key Questions Unanswered

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Jun 12th, 2020

The President’s Inversion of the Government’s Ethical Conduct Standards, Right Before Americans’ Eyes

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May 26th, 2020

Law Day and the Need for Virtue in Government Lawyering

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May 1st, 2020

When the Abnormal Becomes Typical: Clinging to Memories of Normalcy Three Years into the Trump Administration

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Mar 3rd, 2020

The Friday Night Massacre’s Broader Context: Trump’s Redesign for American Democracy

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Feb 10th, 2020

A Real-Time Lesson in Leadership and Ethics from the Impeachment Hearings

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Nov 22nd, 2019

Why Officials Keep Testifying Despite White House Counsel’s Letter on Impeachment Inquiry

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Oct 28th, 2019

Bureaucratic Resistance and the Deep State Myth

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Oct 18th, 2019

Getting Over the Wall

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Dec 24th, 2018

In Defense of NYT’s Anonymous: Government “Stewardship” as a Guard Against Threats to Democratic Order

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Sep 7th, 2018

Why I Signed the Former CIA Officials’ Letter on Clearances: In Defense of Rule of Law

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Aug 20th, 2018

Trump’s Four-Pronged War on the Administrative State

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Feb 7th, 2018

One Year Later — New Remarks by Senior State Dep’t Official Discharged by Trump

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Jan 30th, 2018

What Will You Do if Mueller is Fired?

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Dec 21st, 2017

Thoughts on Erik Prince’s Proposal to Privatize Intelligence Gathering

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Dec 8th, 2017

Help Wanted: Custodians for the Rule of Law

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Jul 28th, 2017

Why It Does Not Matter Who Rachel Brand Is

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Jun 20th, 2017

Of Laws, Not Men

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Jun 9th, 2017

The Flagrant Foul in Trump’s Disclosure of Classified Info to Russia: The Missing Interagency Process

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May 16th, 2017

Norms Watch: Tracking the Erosion of Democratic Traditions (Apr. 29-May 5)

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May 5th, 2017

Ben Wittes and Quinta Jurecic on the “Oathless Presidency”—Questions raised by deep distrust in Trump

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Mar 3rd, 2017

Holding the Federal Government in Contempt of Court: What Powers Do Judges Have Over an Administration?

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Mar 2nd, 2017

Survivor’s Guide to Being a Successful Whistleblower in the Federal Government

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Feb 22nd, 2017

The President and the Peril of Politicizing our Military

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Feb 17th, 2017

Trump and the Immigration Bureaucracy: Should We Expect Civil Servants to Dissent?

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Feb 9th, 2017

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