Civilian employees of the federal government are not a protected class. You can deny someone a job in the US for any reason, no matter how capricious, except m

Civilian employees of the federal government are not a protected class. You can deny someone a job in the US for any reason, no matter how capricious, except membership in a protected class. Don't like football? You can refuse to hire someone for having participated once in a football game when they were seven. If you live in an employment-at-will state, you can fire them for watching a football game on their own time at home. You can even fire them for suspicion of watching a football game. For that matter, you can fire them for watching a football game or, in the alternative, not having watched a football game, for failure to complete the labors of Hercules, or for any reason or no reason at all, unless that reason is membership in a protected class.