These questions would seem to violate EEO laws.
Nope.
Here is the link. The civil service was established after the strange story of the assassination of President James Garfield. Up until that time, part of the "spoils," of getting elected, was not only packing the courts with folks who were aminiable to your political party, but also to fire everyone in the government, and re-hire and pack the entire government.
Someone didn't get a job that they thought they were going to get? So they killed Garfield, and the leaders in D.C. decided maybe it was time for reform.
Bell, inventor of the telephone, devises a way to detect the bullet in Garfield's body.
www.historynet.com
This does NOT mean that they thought that all hiring based on political ideology should be done away with. . . That the left is bitching in this thread, and seriously trying to say, that the Biden admin hasn't packed the bureaucracy with folks friendly to them? Is a lark, it really is. . .
I assume they're getting around it since they're not the employer. They're just an "independent" screener.
They get around it, because the political patronage system in the civil service system is different than in employment in the private sector, it is specifically political, like when politicians appoint judges. It isn't as concerned with efficiently delivering service. This is not. .
"on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. "
Trump is NOT the first president to do this. . I have no idea why you are all outraged now, just because he is so explicit about it..
Government is now, one of the biggest employers, they are, in and of themselves, an interest group. Congress is well aware, and now, this has become a problem.
Congress Must Pass the Preventing a Patronage System Act To Protect Federal Civil Servants’ Impartiality
Passage of the Preventing a Patronage System Act is critical to allow civil servants to do their jobs and to ensure the federal government’s stability, reliability, and authority in domestic functions and international relations.
www.americanprogress.org
". . . The Trump administration used heretofore unnoticed authority for this unprecedented civil service restructuring scheme found in Title 5, Section 7511 of the U.S. Code. This statute specifically exempts from civil service job protections employees “whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character by … the President for a position that the President has excepted from the competitive service.”
Partisan political loyalty requirements for all government workers. In America or they're out. No way this could even be CONSIDERED here before. Now? No big deal.
It started when the establishment stabbed Trump and the Americans who voted for him in the back. That? Is treason. If the government had just cooperated with the will of the people, instead of attacking a president that the people voted for? We would not be here now.
I remember when the employees of the entire bureaucracy revolted after he was elected, and he had no idea who they were.
. . and then the leaks started in the press. . . and then the bogus impeachments.
(I can't say I blame his paranoia and this move by his supporters after that last shitshow. TBH If the nation and the bureaucracy had just treated him and his supporters with a little decency and respect like we used to always do in this nation. meh.)
Unverified ‘alternative’ government accounts target Trump on Twitter
January 27, 2017
Except that's not what Trump wants. He wants people who are loyal to him above all else. People who will do his bidding without question. He doesn't give to shits about people doing their jobs as long as they bend a knee before him.
Of course. That is what EVERY politician wants. That is what they all want. They all pack the bureaucracy with hires that are aligned with folks that think and feel just like them. They just aren't as obvious about it.
The old boy network has always worked the same for the past two and a half centuries, and anyone that says otherwise is either naive or lying.
www.acslaw.org
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