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The Special Counsel is supposed to withstand the winds of political change and help ensure that no government servant of either party becomes the subject of prohibited employment practices or faces reprisals for calling out wrongdoing—by holdovers from a previous administration or by officials of the new one,
Jackson wrote in her decision It would be ironic, to say the least, and inimical to the ends furthered by the statute if the special counsel himself could be chilled in his work by fear of arbitrary or partisan removal,
This is the only single-headed agency left for the courts to consider, and it is unlike any of them,
Therefore, it is null and void, and plaintiff is and shall be the Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel for the remainder of his five-year term unless and until he is removed,
If I don't have independence, if I can be removed for no good reason, federal employees are going to have no good reason to come to me,
Dellinger said on Wednesday That email made no attempt to comply with the Special Counsel’s for-cause removal protection,
I’m grateful to see the court confirm the importance and legality of the job protections Congress afforded my position,
Dellinger said in a statement This is not significant executive authority. It is hardly executive authority at all,
said the judge, an appointee of President Joe Biden The special counsel’s job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals,
The elimination of the restrictions... would be fatal to the defining and essential feature of the Office of Special Counsel as it was conceived by Congress and signed into law by the President: its independence,
