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Removal of Federal Employees: Sound Discretion and Constitutional Rights

Currently one frequently hears that the government security program deprives federal employees of their “constitutional rights.” The implication by many commentators and columnists is that job rights of federal employees provided by the Constitution and respected since the days of the Founding Fathers are now being ignored; that, to get back to the Constitution, employees are entitled to “confrontation by witnesses” and full-scale trials as a condition of removal.

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Removal of Federal Employees: Sound Discretion and Constitutional Rights

Currently one frequently hears that the government security program deprives federal employees of their “constitutional rights.” The implication by many commentators and columnists is that job rights of federal employees provided by the Constitution and respected since the days of the Founding Fathers are now being ignored; that, to get back to the Constitution, employees are entitled to “confrontation by witnesses” and full-scale trials as a condition of removal.