The Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter from posts by her post office leaders just days after launching the U.S. Library of Congress curator Carla Hayden.
“Your position as the U.S. Copyright Office’s copyright and directors’ register of directors is effective immediately,” a spokesman for the Copyright Office confirmed Sunday that the White House sent an email Saturday.
The move comes after Trump fired the head of the Library of Congress on Thursday oversees the copyright office. Hayden was the first woman to serve as a Congressional librarian and the first African-American.
Hayden was confirmed in her position in 2016 and he hired all rights reserved in October 2020, the Associated Press reported.
Both Perlmutter and Hayden face scrutiny from the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), a conservative nonprofit organization, which called for fire to be opened late last month.
“The president and his team did an admirable and long-standing job in clearing deep national liberals in the federal government. It’s time to show the door to Carla Hayden and Shira Perlmutter and return the first agenda to the U.S. intellectual property regulations,” AAF’s president Tom Jones told the Daily Mail in late April.