Judge orders temporary halt to Trump’s mass layoffs of federal workers

The Washington Post ^ | May 10, 2025 2:48 AM EDt | Frances Vinall

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to halt mass layoffs of federal workers for at least two weeks in a temporary restraining order issued Friday.

A coalition of local governments, nonprofit organizations and labor unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, filed a lawsuit last month challenging an executive order issued Feb. 11 that instructed federal agency heads to prepare large-scale reductions in workforce.

The AFGE-led coalition had argued that the president does not have the power to make that order. Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said in her ruling that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on at least some of their claims and issued the temporary restraining order to stop layoffs as the case proceeds.

“To make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must enlist the help of his co-equal branch and partner, the Congress,” she wrote.

She added that the president does not have “constitutional nor, at this time, statutory authority to reorganize the executive branch.”

Attorneys for the Trump administration filed an appeal of the temporary restraining order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, court records show.

At least 24,000 federal probationary employees have already been fired as part of the Trump administration’s push to shrink the government, according to court filings. The legality of those layoffs is separately undergoing challenge in the courts.

The AFGE-led coalition described its lawsuit as “the largest and most significant challenge to Trump’s authority to remake the government” without Congress’s approval, The Washington Post reported.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

These insurrectionist judges are almost all women. I'm seeing a trend.

[lastchance]

Has the judge also issued an injunction against the tides? Might as well let the universe know who really is in charge once and for all.

[lastchance]

I must have slept through that day in Civics class.

[lastchance]

“...his co-equal branch and partner, the Congress..”

Just where did she go for the privacy to pull that out of her ass?

[MortMan]

SCOTUS already shot this crap down, I thought.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

These insurrectionist judges are almost all women. I'm seeing a trend.

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy." --George Orwell

[FlingWingFlyer]

Susie the Judgy skank. All these pagan gods in their black robes are commie skanks and fags. They are the greatest threat to America. Nobody has yet bothered to tell the American people where these skanks and fags get their authority and power from. It sure as hell isn’t the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

[rktman]

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4316079/posts

😊👍

[VideoDoctor]

The KEY word here is "TEMPORARY."

TRUMP WILL PREVAIL!

[ridesthemiles]

OVER 100,000 of those who TOOK THE PAID LEAVE UNTIL SEPT 30 discharges have been found to be FILING FOR UNEMPLOYMENT..

WHAT SAY YOU, JUDGE??

THAT IS BLATANTLY FRAUD.

[Tudorfly]

Unconstitutional judicial overreach should be ignored by the Executive Branch...or the Executive Branch should arrest unconstitutional acting judges for obstructing the legal administration of justice.

[HYPOCRACY]

No argument here. Especially the part about arresting these lawless lowlifes. Hang them for sedition.

[frog in a pot]

some...unelected scumbag judge

Recommended by Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and appointed by Clinton.

[Democrat = party of treason]

Again... IGNORE THE TRAITORS AND DO WHAT NEEDS DOING

[MinorityRepublican]

Interesting. Lott wrote that in 1998. That was a long time ago.

[cgbg]

These leftist judges are like umpires that pick up the bat and start clubbing the batter in the head with it.

But—as you say—we do need our umpires.

Lol.

[gildafarrell]

Another active liberal leftist judge that overstepped their authority and should be behind bars just especially for people like this judge.