The legal arguments mark the latest effort by President Donald Trump to exert more control over independent agencies and remove protections for federal workers. The administration is now aiming to use the MSPB to assert that the presidential powers in the Constitution outrank the right to due process for workers, although the MSPB has previously said it lacks the statutory authority to consider constitutional claims.
"The Trump administration's effort to assert control over the interpretations of the MSPB is alarming because the MSPB needs some degree of independence from the executive branch to fairly adjudicate the claims brought by federal employees," said Nick Bednar, a law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School...
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