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POLITICO Playbook: GFI’s New Hires

TRANSITIONS — Governing For Impact is adding Adam Grogg, John Lewis and Elisabeth Mabus. Grogg will be legal director and previously was deputy general counsel at OMB. Lewis will be deputy legal director and previously was a trial attorney for DOJ’s Federal Programs Branch. Mabus

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American Prospect: Executive Action Reaction: Day 1

But earlier this month, the researchers at Governing for Impact (GFI) made the case that rescheduling federal workers is wholly unlawful. Essentially, the order blows open a narrow exception to civil service protections for senior political officials and applies it to thousands

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NOTUS: Vulnerability of Schedule F

 A memo from Governing for Impact out this morning argues accepted wisdom about the legality of Schedule F is wrong, and OMB nominee Russell Vought cannot actually reclassify top civil servants, strip them of their due process protections and fire them, at least not

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