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Judge orders temporary halt to Trump’s mass layoffs of federal workers
The Washington Post ^
| May 10, 2025 2:48 AM EDt
| Frances Vinall
Posted on 05/10/2025 1:43:59 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestsusanillston; article2; enemycombatant; enemyjudge; interference; judgewatch; judicialcoup; judicialmisconduct; judicialsedition; labor; noauthority; nojurisdiction; obstruction; susanillston; undermining; unlawfulorders
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
These insurrectionist judges are almost all women. I'm seeing a trend.
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:07:21 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:18:20 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: HYPOCRACY
I must have slept through that day in Civics class.
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:18:56 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“...his co-equal branch and partner, the Congress..”
Just where did she go for the privacy to pull that out of her ass?
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:19:57 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
SCOTUS already shot this crap down, I thought.
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:23:26 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
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
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:38:47 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
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posted on
05/10/2025 3:58:56 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We now have RAT activists interpreting their version of the Constitution. Who needs da Supremes?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
05/10/2025 4:04:47 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The KEY word here is "TEMPORARY."TRUMP WILL PREVAIL!
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
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posted on
05/10/2025 4:34:25 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: HYPOCRACY
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.
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posted on
05/10/2025 6:11:19 PM PDT
by
Tudorfly
(All things are possible within the will of God.)
To: Tudorfly
No argument here. Especially the part about arresting these lawless lowlifes. Hang them for sedition.
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posted on
05/10/2025 6:13:55 PM PDT
by
HYPOCRACY
(Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
To: HYPOCRACY
some...unelected scumbag judge Recommended by Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and appointed by Clinton.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Again... IGNORE THE TRAITORS AND DO WHAT NEEDS DOING
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Interesting. Lott wrote that in 1998. That was a long time ago.
To: Bob Wills is still the king
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.
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posted on
05/10/2025 7:55:00 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(It was not us. It was them--all along.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Another active liberal leftist judge that overstepped their authority and should be behind bars just especially for people like this judge.
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posted on
05/10/2025 7:58:59 PM PDT
by
gildafarrell
(You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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