Congress has enacted laws to ensure that federal workers are hired on the basis of their professional qualifications - not ...

In 1883, passage of the Pendleton Act replaced the spoils system of political patronage, dating from the days of Andrew Jackson, with a modern merit-based civil service. In 1889, in Milwaukee ...

President Donald Trump in his first 100 days tested that system like rarely before ... But they did not ask the courts to step in. Andrew Jackson, the first populist president, loathed the ...

That practice, known as the "spoils system" of government, had antecedents that date to the colonial era but has become credited to Andrew Jackson, who installed many of his supporters upon his ...

Trump’s use of those powers to reward allies and penalize adversaries — real and perceived — defies modern comparison and harks back to President Andrew Jackson’s spoils system.