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From the Daily Caller: The Department of Education (ED) under the Biden administration used an obscure hiring gimmick to bring in nearly 200 attorneys while pushing radical policies that faced persistent legal opposition.
The Biden administration used the Schedule A hiring process, which provides an expedited path by bypassing the usual competitive process and negating the requirement that appointments be made based on merit. ED hired 193 attorneys from Jan. 20, 2021 through April 30, 2024 mostly staffing the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Schedule A positions are not required to be publicly posted, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The appointments through this system do not expire at the end of the president’s term.
“We uncovered other agencies during the Biden administration that used Schedule A hiring authority to staff the ranks of career officials outside the normal competitive process, often in politicized offices or offices working on highly contentious issues,” Michael Chamberlain, director of PPT, told the DCNF. “The Department of Education looks to have used this same authority to bulk up its Office for Civil Rights with career attorneys, stocking one of the most political offices in the department. OCR, by the way, worked on the administration’s massive (and unpopular) rewrite of Title IX regulations. It’s little wonder why the American public lost so much trust in its government during this time.”
The report notes that Biden’s education department, headed up by far-left Democrat Miguel Cardona, pushed multiple controversial policies, such as rewriting Title IX, a civil rights rule meant to protect women from discrimination, to include gender identity.
In addition, just months before President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term, Biden’s Justice Department used Schedule A to hire over 100 immigration judges for its Immigration Review division.
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Documents obtained by Protect the Public’s Trust reveal the Biden admin used “Schedule A” authority to bypass competitive hiring processes and install nearly 200 attorneys in one of the Education Dept’s most politicized offices.https://t.co/OHkrVeyUs5
— Protect the Public’s Trust (@PublicsTrust) May 21, 2025
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