If presidents and their powerful billionaire campaign donors can control who sits on the Federal Trade Commission, it will throw open the door for corruption. Learn more:

Congress entrusted independent agencies with substantial power to regulate important and sensitive issues — it deliberately chose not to grant those powers to the president alone.

“The court also lays out a variety of compliance measures and fact-finding measures for us to know what is going on and that the government is respectful. If someone has violated people's rights, we need to know who.”

“The government cannot use force against people that are being nonviolent. [But] that force has come in the form of tear gassing, and shooting rubber bullets and pepper spray. We've seen peaceful people subjected to these things,” Johnson adds.

Johnson continues, "People have a right to be in public places and to express their views peacefully."

Our suit is about making sure that political views and beliefs are not a condition for employment in the federal government. America’s civil service thrives when it is filled with experts committed to serving the public, not political loyalists. Read more here: protectdemocracy.org/work/illegal...

Trump’s loyalty question is only one part of the admin’s larger strategy of removing civil servants hired based on merit and replacing them with loyalists at every level, whether its Wildland Firefighters or Air Traffic Control Specialists. Read more here: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-patrio...

This “loyalty question” is intended to identify applicants whose political views align with the Trump admin’s Executive Orders and policy initiatives. The question already appears on over 5k job listings for non-political positions — and more are posted each day. usajobsloyaltytests.netlify.app