Posted on 08/27/2024 12:32:57 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Biden-Harris administration has deployed a little-known hiring mechanism to staff key divisions of the Department of Justice (DOJ) ahead of the 2024 election, according to documents provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT).
Hundreds of people, primarily lawyers and judges, have been appointed to the Environmental and Natural Resources (ENRD) and Antitrust and Immigration Review divisions of the DOJ using its “Schedule A” hiring authority since President Joe Biden took office, documents shared with the DCNF by PPT show. Schedule A hiring does not require appointments to be made on the basis of merit and appointments do not expire at the end of the current president’s term, meaning these bureaucrats will stick around even if former President Donald Trump takes office in 2025, according to the Office of Budget and Management.
The hiring process is intended to benefit people with “intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities or psychiatric disabilities” but it can also be used to staff specialist positions as chaplains, scientists, and attorneys or to fill critical hiring needs, according to federal regulations.
“The Biden-Harris administration and its allies have already signaled their intent to hamstring their successor and prevent a future president from reversing their agenda,” PPT director Michael Chamberlain said in an advance copy of a press release shared with the DCNF. “Exploiting non-competitive hiring authorities to fill career civil service positions could be just another component of this scheme. It’s no wonder that the public’s trust in its government has all but disappeared.”
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The DOJ used Schedule A to hire well over 100 immigration judges for its Immigration Review division, per the documents. Immigration judges are responsible for deciding “whether a noncitizen may remain in the United States or must leave the country,” according to the DOJ.
At the end of the 2020 fiscal year, around when Biden took office, immigration courts had a backlog of roughly 1.3 million cases, according to the DOJ. That number had ballooned to 3 million under the Biden-Harris administration, PBS reported in January.
“The administration is also using Schedule A to install immigration judges — again, outside of the normal merit-based system — who will rule on cases of those in a position to benefit from the administration’s immigration policies,” PPT’s press release reads.
The DOJ also used Schedule A to hire a massive glut of trial attorneys for its ENRD division, which is responsible for enforcing environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. The division focuses on climate change, environmental justice and defending the interests of Native American tribes, according to its website.
“The ENRD is a vital office in advancing the Biden-Harris administration’s energy and climate policies, and the placement of Biden-Harris loyalists is a means to defend those policies even if a future Trump (or other) administration seeks to change them,” according to PPT.
The DOJ also took the opportunity to use Schedule A to beef up its antitrust division with an army of trial attorneys, according to the documents. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has adopted an aggressive stance to antitrust enforcement, bringing action against Amazon, Meta, Kroger, Microsoft and Nvidia, among others.
“Until recently, antitrust enforcement was a relatively technical and non-partisan division,” PPT’s press release reads. “But the Biden-Harris administration’s increasingly aggressive implementation has sparked complaints of politicized enforcement.”
PPT characterizes these DOJ appointments as one pillar in a broader effort to “Trump-proof” the federal government ahead of November’s election.
The Biden-Harris administration has advanced a federal rule that would make it more difficult for the president to fire career bureaucrats. Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency agreed to a new contract in May that will allow them to avoid being fired so long as their work is conducted with “scientific integrity,” Politico reported.
An army of left-of-center civil society organizations, like the American Civil Liberties Union and National Immigration Law Center, are also rapidly drafting litigation to counter actions taken by a possible second Trump administration.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division both denied PPT’s records requests.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
NOT gonna work this time. We're under COG, under an emergency, where PEADs rule. BidAn/Harris have no real powers.
This time, Trump better fire every rat left in the nest on day one, no questions asked.
Like termites.
Like squirrels in the attic.
Like roaches.
The President can issue Executive orders removing any of the shenanigans the dems left behind at the DOJ, including ending any position that was filled in this manner, and their army of lawyers can do precious little about it.
Could you restate that in English please?
Trump: Sue me.
AMERICA’S KGB
Is this the same thing Obunghole did to implant the commies all over the government that couldn’t be gotten rid of?
“Schedule A hiring does not require appointments to be made on the basis of merit and appointments do not expire at the end of the current president’s term...”
And Trump can just rightly say these are political appointments and therefore he’s entitled to terminate them even if their term hasn’t expired.
They can keep their job possibly, but Trump can and will assign them to whatever he want’s. They can sit in an office, reviewing asylum claims from the Marshall Islands. They must certainly do not have a right to get in his way as decide their workload, hours or days.
And then they might need to punch a time clock, see their office moved to Omaha, etc.
President can not fire civil servants without justification. He/she can only fire appointed people. Correct me on this if I am wrong.
If he can't fire them, he can order them to do nothing. Cut off all phones and communications in their offices, and make them sit there and do *NOTHING*. Removal all work and all authority to do any work.
Deep state minions can't be trusted to do actual work for the government, so making them sit, while costly, will be less costly than allowing them to cause trouble.
“This time, Trump better fire every rat left in the nest on day one, no questions asked.”
In 2016 he did not have an administration ready to go on January 20, 2017. As a result Obama holdovers filled many administration positions through much of 2017 allowing the Obama people and the entrenched bureaucracy to thwart Trump’s agenda.
If Trump isn’t ready to send nominations for senior positions (cabinet and agency heads) to the Senate the day after Election Day, and if he doesn’t have someone ready to walk in and occupy the desk of appointed positions on January 20, 2025, we will likely see a replay of 2017 when the swamp tied the administration up in knots. Without a strong team of battle proven and ready people in place to help him, he will end up on defense from day 1.
Who cares? Screw them. Fire them anyway.
There is going to need to be a complete purge of all institutions at all levels.
Who cares? Screw the “rules”.
No more playing nice with these commies.
Meaning, they’re already setting up another coup.
Trump can just undo the actions they are taking.
BTW, SOS Jocelyn Benson of Michigan is now trying to prevent Kennedy from removing himself from the ballot for November.
She isn’t even try to hide the fact that she is trying to help Harris in any way she can just the same as she did with Biden.
The house of reprehensibles can defund the bass turds.
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