McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Law and Political Science at U. of Minnesota. AdLaw, Admin. Capacity, and the Federal Workforce. Contributing Editor for Lawfare; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings. Signal: Nbednar.46
Opinions are my own; Not UMN.
Nick Bednar
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I get the desirability of a complete set of opinions upon publication. But dissents and concurrences can delay decisions. I also acknowledge that maybe a member of the majority might be persuaded by the dissent and perhaps that is enough to require simultaneous publication.
It's out! Are you nervous about rebuilding government capacity to do anything beyond corporate giveaways and/or fascism? Then you care about civil service hiring dysfunction & the ron swanson-pilled mythologies that made it like this.
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This week President Trump transferred ~8,000 federal employees to Schedule Policy/Career, stripping their tenure protections and allowing at-will removal.
@nicholasbednar.bsky.social breaks down the positions affected and what happens next:
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