Posted on 05/17/2025 3:53:54 AM PDT by cgbg
A federal appeals court has lifted a lower-court order that prevented the federal government from implementing President Donald Trump’s plan to end collective bargaining by workers at more than a dozen federal agencies.
In a 2-1 ruling Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman appeared to have erred last month when he froze Trump’s executive order on the subject.
The appeals court’s majority said there was insufficient evidence that the National Treasury Employees Union faced “irreparable harm” that would justify the preliminary injunction, Friedman said in his ruling.
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I liked hearing Hegseth say, The Pentagon is done walking on eggshells.
Seems DOJ is now run by Dems wanting to overthrow the American form of Gov’t by bringing in 20 million illegals for their vote.
Good post.
Even when the judges rule in favor of the executive they are claiming power to make that ruling.
It is a form of mass hypnosis.
They are creating power out of thin air.
“Court gives go-ahead to Trump’s plan to halt union bargaining for many federal workers”
“A federal appeals court lifted an order on Friday that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain over working conditions.
A 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit put on hold an injunction a judge issued at the behest of the National Treasury Employees Union that had blocked implementation of an executive order Trump issued in March.
The union and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the ruling.
Trump’s order exempted more than a dozen federal agencies from obligations to bargain with unions. They include the departments of Justice, State, Defense, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services.
The union, which represents about 160,000 federal employees, argued the order violates federal workers’ labor rights and the Constitution.
But the appeals court’s majority said the union had failed to show it would suffer the type of irreparable harm that would justify the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman on April 25.
U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Henderson, an appointee of Republican President George H.W. Bush, and Justin Walker, whom Trump appointed in his first term, said the injunction, if allowed to remain in effect, would also impede Trump’s national-security prerogatives.
Trump relied on a national security exemption to exempt agencies that he said “have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work.”
“Preserving the President’s autonomy under a statute that expressly recognizes his national-security expertise is within the public interest,” the appeal’s court majority wrote.”
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