"judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired employees at va, defense department and other agencies"
“march 13, 2025, San Francisco cnn —
“a federal judge has ordered half a dozen federal agencies to 'immediately' reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to rapidly shrink the federal workforce, calling the effort a 'sham.'
“the preliminary injunction issued from the bench Thursday by U.S. district judge William Alsup requires the departments of veterans affairs, agriculture, defense, energy, interior and treasury to rehire the employees. the judge said that he might extend the order to cover other federal agencies at a later time.
“Alsup, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, said he was making the ruling because he believes the office of personnel management unlawfully directed the agencies earlier this year to lay off the probationary employees, who generally have been on the job for less than a year.
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he meets with irish taoiseach (prime minister) Micheal Martin (not pictured), in the oval office at the white house in Washington, D.C., U.S., march 12, 2025.
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“'the court finds that office of personnel management did direct all agencies to terminate probationary employees with the exception of mission critical employees,' he said, rejecting arguments from the justice department that opm merely issued 'guidance' to the agencies that then led to the firings.
“the judge said the order is effective immediately: 'this is the order and it counts.'”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/judge-opm-probationary-employees-fired-hearing/index.html
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It's Trump against the world. No doubt his legal counsel warned him this would happen on most of his EOs. I have zero confidence in Coney Island Barrett or John(Julia)Roberts to back P.T. up.
--GRA
SCHUMER THE SCHEMER CALLS GOP "BASTARDS",THEN SAYS HE'S TRYING TO SAVE DEMOCRAZY(DEMOCRACY)
(ZH)Update (2145ET): After bending the knee to the GOP and agreeing to vote 'yes' on the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through September, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered a contrived outburst on MSNBC, calling Republicans 'bastards' before quickly correcting himself.
"To have the conflict on the best ground we have, summed up in a sentence, that they're making the middle class pay for tax cuts for billionaires?" said Schumer. "It's much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which should divert people from the number one issue we have against these bastards, sorry, these people, which is not only all these cuts, but they're ruining democracy"(democrazy--which is the dems version of democracy).
--GRA
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