Posted on 02/08/2025 12:24:34 PM PST by TigerClaws
A federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary block on plans by the Trump administration to put 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, also agreed to block an order that would have given just 30 days for the thousands of overseas USAID workers the administration wanted to place on abrupt administrative leave to move their families back to the U.S. at the government's expense.
Both actions by the administration would have exposed the workers and their families to unnecessary risk and expense, according to the judge.
This comes as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, seek to dismantle the agency.
Demonstrators and lawmakers rally against President Donald Trump and his ally Elon Musk as they disrupt the federal government, including dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Nichols noted that staffers living overseas have said the administration had cut some workers off from government emails and other communication systems required to reach the U.S. government in case of a health or safety emergency.
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Does the judge have the right to do this? Or just mouthing off?
O.k.
No leave.
“You’re fired!”
“The judge has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.”
They are not on leave, judge.
They got their new assignments to their new duty station in Antarctica.
As for emails and Internet access—we are working on that. It is going slowly with government unions and such....
Lol.
“staffers living overseas have said the administration had cut some workers off from government emails and other communication systems required to reach the U.S. government in case of a health or safety emergency.”
Such pussies.
I have grown weary of black robed oligarchs.
The founders clearly did not intend for the judiciary to have blanket veto power over any & everything promulgated by the other two branches of government.
Checks & balances my a$$.
I'd like for this "judge" to quote precisely what gives him the authority to interfere with the actions of the Executive Branch and the President.
You can put on a black robe and issue orders if you like.
Lol.
I was ready to get in a huff, then I read it again...
30 days to pack up the family, get everything moved and find new housing here at home is a tad bit rushed...
Give ‘em 90 days (just the ones overseas)
“in case of a health or safety emergency”
If the natives decide to eat them for dinner does that count?
Lol.
What part of “at government expense” does the Judge not understand?
Dammit, we’ll never get anything done if the Marxist ‘judges’ keep interfering.
The stooges and stoogettes in black robes need to get their asses back in their own lane. They’re acting like a bunch of drunken Nazis. We elected President Trump. Not their goatsmellin’ asses. Like Mad Maxine’s RATS and RATETTES say, none of those bass turds were elected.
Unfortunately, Oblamea & Bye-dein appointed a sheeit-ton of extreme far-left liberal judges throughout the nation. So Trump is stuck constantly having to deal with those extreme-left judges. Thanks, RINOs, for making Trump’s first term difficult and doing literally nothing to prevent the 2020 Election Steal (while often aiding & abetting it). Thanks for nothing, RINOs.
NO-—THE LONGER TIME THEY HAVE, THE MORE TIME TO ERASE RECORDS
Lock them out.
A feral judge sounds more like it.
Unless Trump is violating the Constitution (which he is not), this ass judge has no say in the matter.
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