Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules

Politico (Yeah, I know) ^ | March 13, 2025 | Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney

[Red Badger]

A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office to sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce. Alsup, a San Francisco-based appointee of President Bill Clinton, ordered the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs to “immediately” offer all fired probationary employees their jobs back. The Office of Personnel Management, the judge said, had made an “unlawful” decision to terminate them. The order is one of the most far-reaching rejections of the Trump administration’s effort to slash the bureaucracy and is almost certain to be appealed.

[Lurker]

No.

Your move, judge.

L

[FreeperCell]

No.

[central_va]

How many infantry divisions does this judge control?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Send them to the border to assist.

[central_va]

A Clintoon judge:

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William Haskell Alsup is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was nominated to the bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1999 and confirmed by the United States Senate. Alsup assumed senior status in 2021

[Da Coyote]

Note that there are real judges, and there are DemocRAT appointed ‘jujjes’.

[Herodes]

How about...”No”...

[JoSixChip]

Trump does not have a choice, he has to do it. It’s the fricking Congress that gives Trump no support whatsoever. There should be several of these judges in the impeachment pipeline. But not a single one is.

[rktman]

Dem playbook. Ignore, carry on.

[jimjohn]

This cannot continue.

Since Congress won’t act, the President can and must put a stop to this.

[dennisw]

Trump better get his best lawyers lined up/ The bought n paid for Democrat are trying to stall Trumps initiatives into oblivion.

[Red Badger]

When did district judges get so uppity that they could rule on things outside their districts?..............

[Biblebelter]

Judge shopping in San Francisco.

Ain’t that cute.

[lurk]

Well, add it to the pile of cases sitting in the higher courts’ Someday file.

[rbg81]

I can’t wait for these judges to start making rulings on foreign policy. It’s coming.

[gibsonguy]

This is the one. Trump must go Jackson on this one. This Judge has no authority to do this. These are probationary, at will employees.

[MayflowerMadam]

Ignoring you.

[cgbg]

Wrong.

The proper place for dealing with probationary federal employees is this one:

https://www.mspb.gov/

The judge is insane.

The President can safely ignore them.

[bigbob]

I hope part of the reason Trump/DOGE moved so quickly was to force this issue to Scotus, knowing these activist judges would try to use their “powers” to stop them.

The country cannot operate this way and it’s not how the constitutional founders envisioned it. Fortunately we have a court that is dominated by textualists who should agree when the issue is ultimately put before them.

Nationwide injunctions are a recent thing, starting under Obama when it was our side that pushed them to stop DACA. But the legal power of judges to apply the Constitution is a new thing - an average of 1.5 per year were issued up til GWB - then 55 against Trump 1.0.

This must end.