Posted on 07/01/2025 11:50:54 AM PDT by CFW
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with plans to overhaul the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by reorganizing several of its agencies and substantially cutting their workforce.
U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose in Providence, Rhode Island, issued an injunction at the behest of a group of Democratic-led states who challenged a plan HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced in March to consolidate agencies and fire 10,000 of the department’s employees.
The layoffs, in addition to earlier buyout offers and firings of probationary employees, reduced the number of full-time HHS employees to 62,000 from 82,000 and left key offices unable to perform statutory functions, the states alleged.
The 19 states that sued, along with the District of Columbia, challenged HHS’s implementation of its restructuring plan, which also called for collapsing 28 divisions into 15 and closing half of its 10 regional offices.
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None. of. her. damned. business.
And which President appointed this judge?!
Do what that district court judge did after the Supreme Court overruled him/her they/them. Ignore it.
Inefficient government bloat is essential to ‘democracy’.
Well I guess the injunction is only good in the “massive” state of Rhode Island according to the SCOTUS ruling last week.
Why are judges allowed to run the government, she belongs in prison.
This judge is not only a Biden appointee, but assumed office January 2, 2025, as one of the last minute saboteurs the democrats put in place. Her only qualification is that she’s a black lesbian communist.
I guess this judge chick thinks she is above the Supreme Court.
Misfunction junction.
Yeah means NOTHING the Supreme Court already ruled that these judges have ZERO say
Even with a slim majority the GOP could pass a law that changes the chief executives ability to change, restructure, downsize, collapse, eliminate or join any federal agency and just like federal regulations requiring a separate House and Senate 2/3 majority to oppose the moves. After the simple language of that the bill would list by name every federal agency, subagency, department, agency and department unit, in one paragraph for that unit that simply says the forging authority over this federal government unit is hereby authorized to the President.
I could be wrong but I thought the ruling said that injunctions were limited to the district of the judge and/or the states that were suing. In this case, 19 such states.
So this begs a question: if you issue an injunction preventing the President from structuring a portion of the executive branch to his liking and it applies to 1 or 2 or 30 states, how can he proceed since he can't set up separate departments for each suing state. So this injunction would have the same effect as a nationwide one, from a practical perspective.
IF I'm write in my understanding of SCOTUS ruling.
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island
Nominated by Joseph Biden on January 19, 2024, to a seat vacated by William E. Smith.
Confirmed by the Senate on March 12, 2024, and received commission on January 2, 2025.
Education: Providence College, B.A., 1990
Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D., 2004
Professional Career:
Teacher in Providence Public Schools, 1990-2004
Special Assistant Attorney of the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office, 2005-2008
Senior Legal Counsel for Schneider Electric, 2008-2019
Rhode Island District Court Judge, 2019-2024
Other Professional Service:
Serves on the Roger Williams University School of Law’s Board of Directors and chairs the board’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee
Member of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in Rhode Island Courts, Chairs the Public Engagement and Education subcommittee
RI Foundation Board as Chief Justice Suttell’s designee, 2021
While this is happening the 20,000 employees are not sitting around waiting to get called back they’re moving on which accomplishes the objective regardless what the judges say.
I thought SCOTUS settled this last week.
another day, another injunction
And she graduated from a law school that US News ranks No. 169 out of 187.
Organization of a department is an executive function, not a judicial one...................
It doesn’t make any difference who appointed the judge-Presidents have to allow some Leftist judges in because otherwise, they cannot get judges they support though the judicial committee and onto the bench. It’s all a give and take thing.
Sadly.
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