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Trump has violated many federal laws by firing not just Dellinger but also members of the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Federal Election Commission.

The Merit Systems Protection Board also permits termination appeals from probationary employees if they allege that the basis for their removal was for partisan political reasons, and workers can even challenge the decision through the Office of Special Counsel or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

On the one hand, the United States just installed a president found liable for sexual abuse; who previously appointed three Supreme Court justices to end federal abortion protections, sending mortality rates for pregnant people skyrocketing; and who halted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s collection of equal pay data during his first term.

It is devastating to consider that the hard-won Civil Rights Act could be used to gut the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, weaponize the Department of Justice as a political asset, and codify the oppression of marginalized people.

That includes people at the top—like the illegal firings of independent watchdogs, as well as appointees to the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.