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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump asks Supreme Court to fire ethics chief as mass purge runs into legal roadblocks

Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court for permission to fire an ethics chief as the president and Elon Musk move quickly to gut the federal workforce, including agency officials and watchdogs.

The top official at the independent U.S. agency that protects government whistleblowers and enforces ethics rules sued the administration this month after he received an email from the president simply stating that his role is “terminated, effective immediately.”

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