EO 13843 titled, “Excepting Administrative Law Judges from the Competitive Service” (83 FR 32755). The E.O. specifies that all appointments of ALJs made on or after July 10, 2018 must be made under Schedule E of the excepted service and acknowledges that such appointments must be made by the head of the hiring agency.

My position was restructured so that new hires were not merit selected. Biden did not cure it because it entails a lousy interpretation from SCOTUS and reinstatement of a hiring "register." . Whereas judges had been hired after a test, an examination of experience and an impartial panel review through OPM, the Office of Personnel Management, now hired under the spoils system.