The Employment Commission for Equal Opportunities is trying to fire the administrative judge who became a symbol of resistance after she spoke against a Trump administration directive so that the agency stops her discrimination investigations with respect to transgender people.
The judge, Karen Ortiz, received on Wednesday on Wednesday that he was put on administrative license paid waiting for the process to get it out of the position he has held for more than six years. The Commission enforces laws against labor decrimination in the federal government and the private sector.
In letters reviewed by the New York Times, the supervisor of Mrs. Ortiz, the interim district director of the New York District Office, Arlean Nieto, said she was trying to end Mrs. Ortiz for “unpleasant driving to a federal employee” and not following the email policy of the agencies.
Mrs. Ortiz caught national attention in February when some leaked her email to the interim president of the commission, Andrea Lucas, asking her to resign. Mrs. Ortiz accused Mrs. Lucas to follow the “illegal and unusual orders of our president” and violate the Constitution.
“I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to maintain the law,” Ortiz wrote in the email, which copied about 1,000 or his colleagues. She acknowledged that a goal for the administration was an heiress.
The email is customary to viral among those who seek signs of resistance to the deep cuts of the Trump administration to the federal government and its objective of marginalized groups.
The agency turned off the email of Mrs. Ortiz’s email and sent a reprimand letter that warned that she had violated the agency policy that required emails of employees sent to other offices that the director of the office was pre -established by the office.
In response, Mrs. Ortiz sent more emails asking Mrs. Lucas to give up and accuse her or misconduct, including one that asked the EM. Lucas to reflect on what was being allowed to be part and then linked to a video of tears for the song of fears “Everyone wants to govern the world.” The content of the emails, wrote Mrs. Nieto, was “deeply unprofessional.”
The Employment Commission for Equal Opportunities sent Mrs. Ortiz the letters a few weeks after President Trump mentioned it, she thought not by name, in an executive order on April 18 that aimed to facilitate government workers who “oppose presidential policies.”
The commission decreased by email when commenting. Mrs. Ortiz has 15 days to respond to accusations. She said she intends to fight but does not regret.
“These are literally surpassed charges,” he said. “I am behind my actions, which support the rule of law and the trans community.”
