If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a plan that would give him the authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them with members of his political party ...

Editor: A recent letter, “Bill would preserve workforce integrity” (Aug. 4), supporting the passage of Saving the Civil Service Act demonstrates what has become increasingly rare concern for the merit ...

In 1883, largely due to the assassination of President Garfield by a disappointed office seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act, which replaced the spoils system with a merit system for federal ...