Showing posts with label purge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purge. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Facing serious new allegations, Pete Hegseth advances purge of Pentagon leaders

While Hegseth's entire tenure at the Department of Defense has been a shambolic mess, the last week has been especially brutal. Last Tuesday, for example, the secretary took steps to end the Pentagon's Women, Peace and Security program, condemning it as a "woke" initiative championed by "feminists and left-wing activists." What Hegseth apparently didn't know was that Trump championed the program, characterizing it as a key first-term accomplishment, after it was crafted by Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem — two of Hegseth's Cabinet colleagues…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/facing-serious-new-allegations-pete-hegseth-advances-purge-pentagon-le-rcna205055 


 

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Virginia is the latest state to face accusations of illegally purging voters

They allege that an executive order signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) in August requiring daily updates to state voter lists to remove ineligible voters violates the Quiet Period required by the National Voter Registration Act… 

"Defendants' Purge Program ... is an illegal, discriminatory, and error-ridden program that has directed the cancelation of voter registrations of naturalized U.S. citizens and jeopardizes the rights of countless others," the lawsuit states...


Friday, April 5, 2024

Biden admin moves to shield federal workers from potential Trump purge

The new rule would make it harder for Former President Trump — or any other president — to reshape the federal workforce via mass firings, as the likely GOP presidential nominee has promised to do if he is elected to another term in the White House...

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Climate advocacy group sues U.S. EPA for 'purge' of scientists - -Business Insider

A climate change advocacy group on Tuesday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for banning certain scientists from serving on its advisory committees - a move the group said will give business an unfair influence on policy. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-climate-advocacy-group-sues-us-epa-for-purge-of-scientists-2018-1

Saturday, December 30, 2017

GOP lawmaker claims FBI purged training documents. Here's what we found | PolitiFact

Did the Barack Obama administration ditch FBI material used to train counterterrorism agents? At a House committee hearing on worldwide terror threats, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., claimed the former administration purged information that could "allow us to see in totality the threat that faces America."....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec/15/scott-perry/gop-lawmaker-claims-fbi-purged-training-documents-/









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