A fired Democratic member of the US Merit Systems Protection Board, Cathy A. Harris, is suing the Trump administration over what she says was her unwarranted removal from her post earlier this week by President
Harris, the MSPB’s former chairwoman, says that she may only be removed by a president for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance,” but Trump fired her through a one-sentence email, according to her lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
Harris alleges her “purported removal” was unlawful and directly conflicts with nearly a century of precedent ...
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