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White House Sought Legal Opinion to Allow Trump to Fire Anyone in Government - June 26, 2020
By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

A recently published internal document from 2017 on federal employment issues revealed that a top Trump aide encouraged White House lawyers to examine whether the president has an inherent constitutional authority to fire whomever he pleases in government, seeking to deem civil service and merit systems protections unconstitutional.

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