Posted on 02/06/2025 11:04:14 AM PST by NohSpinZone
A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer while more proceedings on the program’s legality play out.
The government will send a notice to the employees informing them that Thursday’s deadline is on hold.
Before the judge’s ruling, eligible federal workers had until 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday to decide whether to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer, which will generally allow them to leave their jobs but be paid through the end of September.
The pause stems from a lawsuit that the American Federation of Government Employees and several other unions filed in US District Court in Massachusetts on Tuesday seeking a temporary restraining order to halt the February 6 deadline. The unions also want to “require the government to articulate a policy that is lawful, rather than an arbitrary, unlawful, short-fused ultimatum which workers may not be able to enforce.”
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Any legal eagles here that can offer some idea of a plan to cease judicial tyranny?
Time to be shed of the Gov Unions for good
there were none until JFK.
MAGA
The purpose off the judiciary is to interpret the law. Exactly what law is this judge “interpreting”?
Government by judicial fiat is getting old - and I doubt that this was the intention of the Founding Fathers.
When is the return to work deadline?
Just do it anyway, how many divisions does this judge have anyway?
do it anyway. Biden and Obama did.
Yep. just go ahead and do it. Even SCOTUS didn’t stop BI-Dung from doing his evil unconstitutional EOs.
Yep. Fight fire with fire.
Yep the precedent has been set under Demonrat rule. Just do it.
I would have just issued a termination order right on the spot..just watch, on Monday it will be extended again
Where are the pro-American federal judges who will put a stop to this crap?
I would put out a notice for federal employees to contact their union reps. Tell them this is a one time offer. If it is thrown out by this judge, terminations will begin without the generous buyout package. Then point out that public sector unions were created by executive order, and can be rescinded by executive order.
Let The Bobs cook!
Just fire them.
Karoline, you ROCK!
Fine, Trump doesnt need to offer them any buyout, just fire them NOW..he’s well within his right to do so
OK, but who? Every single federal worker? Air Traffic Controllers? ICE? DoD?
There is precedent. Joe Biden ignored the SCOTUS' decision on student loans and had them paid off anyway.
The SCOTUS is not even involved here. All Trump had to do was to say that the judge did not have the constitutional authority to intervene and it was up to the SCOTUS if they wanted to do something about it.
The only recourse is for Congress to limit judicial appointments, all of them to 15 years. No lifetime appointments, even to the Supreme Court.
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