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Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists regardless of competence

  • Written by Sidney Shapiro, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University
imageThen-President Donald Trump standing underneath a portrait of Andrew Jackson in November 2017. Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images)

If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a plan that would give him the authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them with members of his political party loyal to him. Under...

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