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At Southworth PC, we are dedicated to helping federal employees with personalized, efficient legal representation to deliver results. Our team of experienced attorneys understands the particular issues, laws and regulations that affect our clients as federal employees. We provide trustworthy counsel without the stuffy persona, leveraging technology for a one-on-one experience tailored to each clie

nt's needs. By creating an affordable solution that ultimately saves time and money, we empower our clients to pursue justice with confidence. It is our mission to ensure every person facing legal challenges has access to quality representation delivered in a straightforward manner that protects their rights and achieves desired outcomes -- working together towards a better future for federal employees!

06/18/2026

6.18.26 Congress built the Education Department in 1979, and this week the administration moved two of its core offices out — civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, special education to Health and Human Services. Here's who pays: after the cuts, the Office for Civil Rights dismissed about 90% of the complaints it closed, many without investigating, and the backlog has ballooned to roughly 24,000 cases — kids harassed at school or denied the disability services the law guarantees, with no one to call. The law that created the Department limits how its offices can be torn down, and the Constitution says the President must execute the laws, not dismantle the agency that carries them out. This is general information, not legal advice — every situation is different. If a function is leaving your shop, save the notice and the date; if you're facing a RIF or reassignment, MSPB windows are short.

06/18/2026

6.18.26 A little-noticed ruling could decide whether your civil-service protections still mean anything. The government fired two veteran immigration judges with no notice and no cause, then argued Article II of the Constitution lets it ignore the laws that protect federal workers — and the MSPB agreed, holding it couldn't even hear their appeal. Now the full Federal Circuit has taken the rare step of hearing the case, and the same theory is being aimed at Title VII and the First Amendment. This is general legal information, not legal advice. Follow Jackler v. DOJ, protect your records, and share this with a fed who needs to see it.

06/18/2026

6.18.26 Senators spent yesterday's hearing pressing nominees on whether politics now steers who the government helps — and one detail should stop every fed cold. The nominee to run the office that protects federal workers from political retaliation sat through nearly 90 minutes and wasn't asked a single question. The disaster-funding fight is about appropriations, not your job — but the fear a lot of you carry about political targeting at work already has a name in the law. This is general information, not legal advice, and every case turns on its own facts. If you think a personnel action hit you because of your political affiliation, drop a comment or reach out.

06/17/2026

6.17.26 The same engineers who helped gut the federal workforce are now raising serious money to sell AI back to the agencies they cut. New reporting lays out the startups, the venture backing, and an ethics framework that — by the watchdogs' own account — barely touches them. The one-year cooling-off rule restrains the former senior official personally, but not his colleagues and not his company. This is general information, not legal advice. What does it tell you that "DOGE" is now a credential investors compete over? Drop a comment, and if you saw this play out inside your agency, tell us what you watched.

06/16/2026

6.16.26 For generations, Black women showed up with the education, skill, persistence, and leadership to move from exclusion into influence. From clerical roles to management, policy, HR, law, budgeting, contracting, and executive leadership, their progress was built over decades — not because barriers disappeared, but because Black women kept exceeding them.

06/16/2026

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06/16/2026

6.16.26 For more than a year, the cuts were sold as making government leaner. A new Partnership for Public Service survey found the share of Americans who call the government wasteful rose from 61% to 75% — and 52% now oppose the administration's changes, while 51% say those changes made their lives or communities worse. A poll isn't a legal claim, and this is general information, not legal advice — but "efficiency" is the stated rationale for much of what's hit the workforce, and the public isn't buying that it worked. Feds: has your agency actually gotten more efficient this year, or just more short-staffed? Drop a comment.

06/16/2026

6.16.26 NTEU just sued the IRS in federal court, alleging the agency stripped pro-union flyers and flags from employees' workspaces — and in one Georgia office, dumped them in the restroom. The union is calling it prior restraint and viewpoint discrimination under the First Amendment. The bigger question for every fed: can your agency decide what you're allowed to display at your own desk? This is general information, not legal advice, and the law in this area is genuinely contested right now. If your materials were removed, your union is the right first call — but if you were disciplined or reassigned after supporting the union, that's a retaliation question, and our firm does free consultations. IRS folks: did this reach your office?

06/15/2026

6.15.26 The GAO just quantified what we've been covering for a year: probationary employees separated at roughly 19% in 2025, well above the ~15% rate for the federal workforce overall — and nearly 79% of those separations were labeled "voluntary." A new OPM rule narrowed probationers' already-thin appeal rights, but probationary status does not erase your EEO or whistleblower protections. If your separation was discriminatory, retaliatory, or procedurally defective — or part of the mass firings a court has already called unlawful — that can be a real case. This is general information about federal employment law, not legal advice about your situation. Were you on probation this past year? Tell us which agency in the comments — and if your story is sensitive, message or email us.

06/15/2026

6.15.26 Career Park Service staff spent the last year removing exhibits on slavery, labor, civil rights, and climate — not by choice, but on orders that traced back to a 2025 executive order. On Friday a federal judge ordered all of it restored within weeks, finding the removals weren't authorized by the laws Congress wrote for how the parks are run. The ruling isn't about whether any one exhibit was "good" — it's about who gets to decide what the public workforce is allowed to tell the truth about. This is general information about a public court ruling, not legal advice. If you work for NPS, I want to hear how this came down inside your unit — drop a comment.

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