didn t like their views on. they said wait a second, congress doesn t this v that po. congress can t punish federal employees by firing them or cutting out their salaries. they don t have the due process apparatus to do that. these employees are entitled to due process. this has been tested in the courts and tdeclared unconstitutional. if you think we re not getting back to that mccarthy era, the trump transition team has already started taking names. they ve started taking names of the climate scientists at the department of energy. they started taking names of department of state employees who are working on women s sb international rights. do you view this on par with the ethics rule and that citizens should try to press congress on this? absolutely. i don t even know how to equate these two things.
if respects didn t like the fact that you ve got civil servants working on women s rights, what they could do is identify who s working on them and zero out all their salaries. punish them for their political views. it s an extremely dark putin-esque view of democracy and our democratic values. and it s been changed. the lovett case in 1943 they identified 43 employees they didn t like their views on. they said wait a second, congress doesn t that power. congress can t punish federal employees by firing them or cutting out their salaries. they don t have the due process apparatus to do that. these employees are entitled to