The recently-fired inspectors general of eight federal agencies are suing the administration over their alleged “unlawful and unjustified” terminations by President
Their firings “violated unambiguous federal statutes” to protect inspectors general from “precisely this sort of interference with the discharge of their critical, non-partisan oversight duties,” the complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia said.
Trump last month directed the firings of several inspectors general, the nonpartisan officials who investigate and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government. The move was one of several Trump has ...