I have heard about the SES before, but thanks for posting this link as it has a lot of good information. How did it happen that Obama appointees are such a big majority? Did he replace and create new positions? The Trump administration needs to do the same, or better yet, change the system to promote based on merit from the ranks. And get them out of the DOJ and agencies they’re not supposed to be in!
Zero created new SES positions, every Rat administration does that, Zero over achieved. GOP administrations just trim around the edges, never significantly reducing the number.
Those in the SES are 90% career civil service, so their latest promotions would have almost all been under the Obama Administration.
The DOJ has around 750 SES employees, so guys like McCabe have been it for likely a long time.
https://seniorexecs.org/images/documents/Basics_of_the_SES_2014_00014718-2x87C30.pdf