HOUSTON KEENE: Americans Lose When Unelected Bureaucrats Try To Play Politics With Federal Jobs

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A district judge’s recent order to overturn the Trump administration’s decision to fire federal employees proves America’s entrenched unelected bureaucracy is not going down without a fight.

Yes, you heard that right: Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently ruled that the President of the United States must rehire the over 1,000 fired Voice of America (VOA) employees released last year. Thankfully, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stayed the judge’s order, preventing it from going into effect for the moment. Still, Judge Lamberth’s move was a decision contrary to the Constitution’s separation of powers, and a slap in the face of the people who elected this administration to clean house.

Worse, this is just the latest instance of the judiciary encroaching on the executive branch’s power. This time it is calling into question the very idea of serving at the pleasure of the president.

In 2025, the Trump administration sought to reduce the operations of VOA, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (VOA’s parent company), and six other federal agencies down to the bare minimum mandated by law. While this aligns with the Trump administration’s........

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