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Deep State Strikes, as EPA Employees Who Signed Anti-Trump Letter Sue Over Firing

In another case of federal bureaucrats challenging elected leaders, seven employees of the Environmental Protection Agency who signed onto a public letter opposing President Donald Trump were eventually ousted. Now they’re suing to get their jobs back.

The terminated employees are suing with the backing of the litigation group Democracy Forward. Democrat lawyer Marc Elias is chairman of the board for Democracy Forward, which has filed numerous lawsuits advocating for the federal bureaucracy against elected leaders. Elias is best known for election litigation for Democrats, and for his role in pushing the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory.

The plaintiffs—three of them suing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and four suing in the Northern District of Illinois—assert the firings were unlawful because they were exercising their First Amendment rights on their own time. Claire Balani, Lane To, and Alexis Wright are suing the EPA in Washington, D.C., while Andreas Harris, Alexander Cole, Stephanie Eytcheson, and Anna Laird are suing in Illinois. The lawsuits were announced Tuesday.

The June 2025 public letter from the employees to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, coordinated by the liberal group Stand Up for Science, says it is a “Declaration of Dissent” from the Trump administration’s........

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