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Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as ‘unconstitutional overcorrections
Follow up to previous post – Proposed Rule on Schedule F Politicizes Career Employee Jobs – See also Government Executive: “OPM officials told agency HR leaders [November 18, 2025] that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.”
Draft final regulations from the Office of Personnel Management will cite “accountability to the president” as grounds for stripping tens of thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections, according to excerpts reviewed by First devised late in President Trump’s first term and reissued in January, Schedule F—now renamed Schedule Policy/Career—is a new job classification within the government’s excepted service for “policy-related” positions.
Employees in positions targeted for conversion would become effectively at-will employees. Last week, OPM promulgated an early copy of its final rule implementing the initiative to federal agencies for review and comment, a sign that its publication could be imminent. That followed all agencies recently turning over to OPM their proposed lists of positions for conversion, and the human resources agency making initial recommendations on those proposals.
OPM estimated in its proposed rule issued in April that around 50,000 federal workers would be placed in the new job category, or around 2% of the civilian workforce. The updated regulations cite the president’s authority under Article II of the Constitution and appears to describe the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act and other laws insulating the federal workforce from politicization as “unconstitutional overcorrections” to the excesses of former President Richard Nixon, who resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal and efforts to make federal agencies more “politically responsive.”
Critical to the success of any presidency is the ability to implement an agenda endorsed by the American people free from antidemocratic, unaccountable bureaucratic resistance,” the rule states. “As explained in greater detail in the proposed rule, the federal service has matured to the point where the status quo removal restrictions are unconstitutional overcorrections over fears of a return to the spoils system of the past.” The final version of the rule still could be subject to change after agencies submit feedback. According to an OPM email summarizing the regulations, the rule states that employees transferred into Schedule Policy/Career will no longer be protected by the removal protections in Chapter 75 of Title 5 of the U.S. Code or the right to adverse action appeals and unwinds the Biden administration’s regulations seeking to block the new job category’s resurrection. During a conference call for more than 200 agency HR leaders Tuesday, Noah Peters, a senior advisor to OPM Director Scott Kupor, argued that Congress granted the president the authority to exempt government jobs from civil service rules when it passed the CSRA…
Follow up to previous post – Proposed Rule on Schedule F Politicizes Career Employee Jobs – See also Government Executive: “OPM officials told agency HR leaders [November 18, 2025] that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.”
Draft final regulations from the Office of Personnel Management will cite “accountability to the president” as grounds for stripping tens of thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections, according to excerpts reviewed by First devised late in President Trump’s first term and reissued in January, Schedule F—now renamed Schedule Policy/Career—is a new job classification within the government’s excepted service for “policy-related” positions.
Employees in positions targeted for conversion would become effectively at-will employees. Last week, OPM promulgated an early copy of its final rule implementing the initiative to federal agencies for review and comment, a sign that its publication could be imminent. That followed all agencies recently turning over to OPM their proposed lists of positions for conversion, and the human resources agency making initial recommendations on those proposals.
OPM estimated in its proposed rule issued in April that around 50,000 federal workers would be placed in the new job category, or around 2% of the civilian workforce. The updated regulations cite the president’s authority under Article II of the Constitution and appears to describe the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act and other laws insulating the federal workforce from politicization as “unconstitutional overcorrections” to the excesses of former President Richard Nixon, who resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal and efforts to make federal agencies more “politically responsive.”
Critical to the success of any presidency is the ability to implement an agenda endorsed by the American people free from antidemocratic, unaccountable bureaucratic resistance,” the rule states. “As explained in greater detail in the proposed rule, the federal service has matured to the point where the status quo removal restrictions are unconstitutional overcorrections over fears of a return to the spoils system of the past.” The final version of the rule still could be subject to change after agencies submit feedback. According to an OPM email summarizing the regulations, the rule states that employees transferred into Schedule Policy/Career will no longer be protected by the removal protections in Chapter 75 of Title 5 of the U.S. Code or the right to adverse action appeals and unwinds the Biden administration’s regulations seeking to block the new job category’s resurrection. During a conference call for more than 200 agency HR leaders Tuesday, Noah Peters, a senior advisor to OPM Director Scott Kupor, argued that Congress granted the president the authority to exempt government jobs from civil service rules when it passed the CSRA…
Corners of the Internet Database
Curated by Matthew Prebeg. Corners of the Internet Database – “I put together this spreadsheet as a living resource for websites and digital places that reignite feelings of joy, excitement and curiosity while exploring the internet. Somewhere along the road, corporations and recommendation algorithms made the internet feel loud and unescapable. I like to think of the internet as a place where you can build a digital home that feels right for you.”
Washington Post Analysis Shows We Are Talking Too Much And Getting Questionable Advice From LLMs
Above the Law – Stephen Embry – And It May All Be Discoverable: It’s incumbent on all of us to do all we can to make ordinary people aware of the dangers. The jury is still out on how much and how soon GenAI will impact the legal profession, as I pointed out in a recent article.
But one thing is certain: GenAI is affecting what people are revealing, the questions they’re asking, and what advice they’re receiving. The implications for lawyers, or perhaps more accurately, their clients, are downright scary.
People are talking too much and getting wrong advice that’s memorialized for future use and discovery I had sounded this alarm before. And now a recent Washington Post analysis of some 47,000 ChatGPT conversations validates many of these concerns in alarming ways. The Post Analysis = Here’s what the Post found:
- While most people are using the tool to get specific information, more than 1 in 10 use it for more abstract discussions.
- Most people use the tool not for work but for very personal uses.
- Emotional conversations were common, and people are sharing personal information about their lives.
- The way ChatGPT is designed encourages intimacy, and the sharing of personal things. It has been found that techniques that make the tool seem more helpful and engaging also make the tool more likely to say what the user wants to hear.
- About 10% of the chats analyzed show people talking about emotions. OpenAI estimated that about 1 million people show signs of becoming emotionally reliant on it.
- People are sharing personally identifiable information, their mental issues, and medical information.
- People are asking the chat to prepare letters and drafts of all sorts of stuff.
- ChatGPT begins its responses with yes or correct more than 10 times as often as it starts with no…”