Posted on 08/25/2018 11:04:50 AM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Saturday rejected key elements of President Donald Trump’s May executive orders that would make it easier to fire federal employees and reduce their ability to bargain collectively.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said in a court order that Trump’s orders, which also would reduce the amount of time low-performing employees had to improve their performance before being fired, “undermine federal employees’ right to bargain collectively.”
Trump signed three executive orders in May that administration officials said would give government agencies greater ability to remove employees with “poor” performance, obtain “better deals” in union contracts and require federal employees with union responsibilities to spend less time on union work.
The directives drew immediate criticism from the American Federation of Government Employees, which said the moves would hurt veterans, law enforcement officers and others.
Jackson ruled that while the president has the authority to issue executive orders relating to federal labor relations, the orders cannot “eviscerate the right to bargain collectively” as envisioned in a long-standing federal statute.
“The President must be deemed to have exceeded his authority in issuing (the orders),” Jackson ruled.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
>>Fire all District Judges like Clinton did when he came into power.
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He probably knew that should have been done already, but had his reasons for holding back. No one fights like our Lion.
Hopefully he will do it November 7.
Wasn’t the right to collectively bargain created by Executive Order? The artical refers vaguely to a federal statute but doesn’t identify it. If the right was created by EO it can be ended by EO. Important to get Kavenaugh seated quickly!
At this point it is time for the President to state full and clear that the Executive Branch will only yield to the Supreme Court. That all lesser courts will be ignored.
You bet. I've read that they only exist because of an EO of Kennedy's that no one has bothered to reverse.
DO IT!
Trump came into office with very little real political power. Overturning something as large and entrenched as the federal employee unions takes a tremendous amount of political power to pull off - despite the fact that it's clearly within the President's purview to do so.
Look at the kerfuffle he got into with the courts over his travel bans. It would have been ten times worse, had he tried something this large.
Trump is essentially the commander in chief of a hostile, beligerent army, that is infested top to bottom with holdovers from the last two administrations. It's going to take however long it takes to replace enough of them with true Trump loyalists to build the sort of real governing power he needs to make significant structural changes to fedzilla.
Ignore the Judge.
Next.
As in so many aspects of the Trump era, we are simultaneously living in the Obama third term.
The Federal courts have assumed way too much power.
Only the SC should be able to overrule a President and even then it should have to be a super majority.
She looks retarded.
I thought that the right to unionize had been done by executive order. The judge says, in her ruling, that it was a “statute.” Perhaps she is referring to an add-on law passed by our disgusting congress when they had never passed the underlying law.
I've never looked it up, but have read for years, that federal workers were unionized via an executive order written by JFK.
Are we seeing where anti-Trump career RINO lawmakers argued that it would be improper to impeach and remove likewise anti-Trump Justice Department members because the three branches of the government are equal and don’t do such things to each other?
Simultaneously, in stark contrast to lawmakers letting Justice Department members get way with obstructing Trump, it seems that the anti-Trump judicial branch has a license to jerk the chain of another branch, evidenced by judges obstructing Trump’s executive branch directives.
I suppose that since anti-Trump members of the judicial branch don’t have to worry about elections like lawmakers do that judicial branch can be more overt about obstructing Trump in an election year than anti-Trump Congress can.
Patriots are reminded that they need to pink-slip post-17th Amendment ratification career lawmakers by sending new state sovereignty-respecting, Trump-supporting patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day 2018.
“I can understand why this judge ruled the way he did.”
“In 1996, Jackson married surgeon Patrick G. Jackson. They have two daughters. Jackson is related by marriage to U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan. Her husband is the twin brother of Ryan’s brother-in-law.”
So does this mean that Paul Ryan is “mixed race?”
“>>Fire all District Judges like Clinton did when he came into power.
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He probably knew that should have been done already, but had his reasons for holding back. No one fights like our Lion.
Hopefully he will do it November 7.”
You are terribly misinformed. Clinton fired all the US Attorneys. They work for the DOJ, which until recently, when it declared itself no longer a part of the Executive Branch, so they actually worked for Clinton. Federal Judges don’t. Under the Constitution, the Congress can get rid of every last Federal judge, save the SCOTUS, but the President has no authority to fire judges.
It does not matter what this judge rules. F him!
Probly not but the liberal law schools may be indoctrinating them and this is the end result
At some point we need to impeach these liberal judges...they are mini dictatorships which taken as a whole are destroying the nation.
Tell me again why we just don’t have a Judicial branch of government. It sure would save money to do away with the Executive and Legislative branches.
What do you think the three branches of government are?
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