🚨SSA ALJs decided nearly 425,000 cases in 2024. While they hear appeals from Social Security and SSI applicants and beneficiaries, ALJs are particularly important in ensuring fair access to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Trump wants to fire them.🚨www.cbpp.org/research/soc…
— Peter Morley 💙 ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T15:39:52.380Z
In Feb, the Trump Admin announced it believes legal protections against firing administrative law judges (ALJs) — independent judges who serve at exec agencies — are unconstitutional & does not plan to follow existing law that protects ALJs from being fired w/o cause. 🧵www.cbpp.org/research/soc…
— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T16:19:05.012Z
Sad! 