Court allows CIA to fire employees who worked on DEI. Thoughts?

[Cubus]

A federal judge has turned down a bid to block the Trump administration from firing intelligence officers who worked in DEI programs, but he prodded the spy agencies involved to try to find new jobs in the intelligence community for those being ousted.

At a hearing Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, U. S. District Judge Anthony Trenga said the laws and court precedents relating to intelligence agency employees give them little recourse in the courts if top officials decide that firing them is in the “national interest,” even if they’ve worked for the government for a decade or more.

The employees involved in the case are 19 intelligence-agency workers whom the administration identified as working on “diversity, equity and inclusion.” President Donald Trump has sought to end DEI initiatives throughout the federal government.

Judge Trenga is an apointee of George Bush Jr.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/cia-dei-firings-trump-administration-00206491

[MisterWack]

I stand by the courts’ decisions and CIA may do the firings.

We can talk about the implications, the issues with firing people based on DEI, and the meat of it though it will happen regardless….

I heard talks of Trump Administration wanting to kill off ‘FDIC’ and as long as they don’t touch this amazing thing that helps millions of fellow Americans I will be happy for the remainder…. Though still sore about the whole ‘CFPB’ being killed and discussions for ending ‘DOE’.

[OlderAndWiser]

Federal government jobs should not be entitlements, particularly in an agency like the CIA.

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for MHO!

[Cubus]

You're welcome.

[DrPepper12]

He can fire them if he follows the legal process which as we know, he has significant aversions to

[exitseven]

It is time for these judges to get out of the way and let the president do what we elected him to do.

[TrueConfection]

👏👏👏👏👏👏 !

[Summeroflove]

GOOD

[Pterodon]

For the firings