The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission tries to dismiss the administrative court that became of the symbol of resistance after she had spoken to a Trump administration directive for the agency to pause its discrimination studies with regard to transgender people.
The judge, Karen Ortiz, received on Wednesday that she was placed on paid administrative leave pending the process to remove her from the position she held for more than six years. The committee maintains laws against labor discrimination in the federal government and the private sector.
In letters assessed by the New York Times, the supervisor of Mrs Ortiz, Acting District Director Arlean Nieto in New York said, that she tried to end Mrs. Ortiz for “unbreaking of a federal employee” and not following the EMail policy of the agency.
Mrs. Ortiz received national attention in February when someone leaked her e -mail to the acting chairman of the committeeAndrea Lucas, who calls on her to resign. Mrs Ortiz accused Mrs Lucas of following the “illegal and unethical orders of our president” and violating the Constitution.
“I will not endanger my ethics and my duty to maintain the law,” wrote Mrs. Ortiz in the E -mail, which she copied to around 1,000 of her colleagues. She acknowledged that she made herself a target for the administration.
The e -mail went viral among those who were looking for signs of resistance to the deep cuts of the Trump government for the federal government and the targeting of marginalized groups.
The agency disabled the e-mail access of Mrs. Ortiz and sent her a warning letter that she had violated the policy of the policy that e-mails required for all employees to other offices, approved in advance by the office director.
In response, Mrs. Ortiz sent more e -mails to call Mrs Lucas to resign and accuse her of misconduct, including one who asked Mrs. Lucas to think about where she allowed herself to be part and then linked to a video of the tears for fear song “Everyone wants to rule the world.” The content of the e -mails, Mrs. Nieto wrote, was ‘deep unprofessional’.
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission sent Mrs. Ortiz the letters a few weeks after President Trump had mentioned her – although not by name – In an executive order On April 18, this was aimed at making government employees who ‘opposed presidential policy’.
The committee refused per e -mail to comment. Mrs. Ortiz has 15 days to answer the accusations. She said she intends to fight, but has no regrets.
“These are literally invented charges,” she said. “I support my actions that support the rule of law and the trans -community.”
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