Summary
Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, sued Donald Trump, claiming his dismissal was unlawful.
The agency, which protects whistleblowers and enforces the Hatch Act, allows presidential removal only for cause.
Dellinger, appointed for a five-year term, argues Trump’s firing lacks legal justification and is part of a broader effort to dismantle federal agencies.
His lawsuit challenges Trump’s push to remove civil servants. Legal experts see this as a test of long-standing job protections.
Good. This needs to be done. So many officials are just “resigning” as a sign of mutual respect as that is what is considered the norm, but honestly they should just wait it out (and if fired fight it out if there is legal recourse like this to do so), there’s zero reason to keel over and let federal services get demolished out of moral obligations.
This is a stupid-ish question, but was this agency doing its job anyway? I mean the examples that come to mind are Snowden and Assange and those guys were not protected, to say the least.
They weren’t whistleblowing, they were going public. IIRC Snowden did use the whistleblowing path first but got nowhere. I guess, because he wasn’t outed at that point, his identity was protected. Nothing else happened though.
Snowden has a warrant out for his arrest. His passport was revoked while on a connecting flight through russia. Then we put the full force of our media against him telling everybody he was a Russian agent. How is than for protecting a whistleblower… great work. Land of the brave… erhm, home of the free, i guess…
Free to pay taxes at least. Well and some other rather nasty stuff.
