New Federal Hiring Process Will Require a Loyalty Oath

Saturday, June 07, 2025

When the Trump administration begins hiring next month, it will prioritize what it calls "patriots."

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"No modern presidential administration has undertaken such an effort to staff the entire government with political loyalists," Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk write.

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-- New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion.nytimes.com) Jun 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM

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An oath not towards the Constitution but to Donald Trump.

This is not as bad as it gets, but pretty close.

There's a definite Hitlerian flavor to it.

The Hitler stench becomes complete when Trump makes members of the Armed Forces swear a personal oath to him.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-07 08:39 AM | Reply

If another change in government is permitted by GOP/MAGA without having to resort to organized violence, everyone one of these people who swore such a crass oath need to be fired and bared from public service permanently.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-07 08:41 AM | Reply

Trump must've learned a lot of the "history" he thinks he knows from the reprehensible Roy Cohn, as locked into the fringe thinking of the 1950s-1970s era as he gives every sign of being. That most (perhaps even the totality) of what the guy "knows" can be readily classified as patently boolshee apparently matters not at all to so many Americans is telling.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-07 08:53 AM | Reply

This creates a Conflict of Interest with the sworn Oath of Office.
Right, Republicans?

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-07 10:25 AM | Reply

So it's just like oath Chinese have to take to the CCP. You have to take it in order to get a publicly funded job, but it doesn't really mean anything.

#5 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-06-07 10:36 AM | Reply

So it's just like oath Republicans have to take to the Constitution. You have to take it in order to get a publicly funded job, but it doesn't really mean anything.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-07 10:38 AM | Reply

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#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-07 02:58 PM | Reply