Federal Workers Seeking Trump Shield Look to Decades-Old Law

Federal workers and their allies are preparing for a legal battle aimed at the heart of President-elect Donald Trump‘s promise to end their job protections on the grounds it’s not “good administration,” an attorney working on the challenge told Bloomberg Law.

This fight could undermine one of Trump’s key campaign promises: reviving a 2020 order known as Schedule F that would make it easier to fire select career employees who work across administrations. At the time, Trump pointed to a part of Title 5 of civil service law that empowers the president to make such a move if “conditions ...