Feds that Trump fired without cause can take their appeals directly to federal court, judges say

Government Executive ^ | 29/4/26 | Eric Katz

[Eleutheria5]

Federal employees fired without a stated cause can challenge that decision directly in federal court without first going to a separate panel designed for civil servants, two judges have ruled in decisions with potentially broad reaching impacts on the Trump administration’s efforts to more quickly dismiss certain workers.

Maurene Comey, a former career attorney in the Justice Department and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, won the initial decision on Tuesday in a case in which she is appealing her termination last year. Comey has suggested her firing was the direct result of her connection to her father, a longstanding target of President Trump who is also facing prosecution from the administration, or her perceived political beliefs. In a separate case earlier this month, a judge ruled his court was the proper forum for Mary Comans, a former Federal Emergency Management Agency official, to challenge her dismissal.

Comey and Comans are among a slew of employees who the Trump administration has dismissed with no stated reason, instead justifying them by arguing the moves were within the president’s scope of authority. Their termination notices suggested the actions were taken “pursuant to Article II of the Constitution and laws of the United States.”

Justice has taken a particularly aggressive approach in dismissing career staff, beginning just hours after Trump took the oath of office when it fired personnel in the Executive Office of Immigration Review and elsewhere. It has continued to remove employees, including both Senior Executive Service staff and standard civil servants, without cause.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: causenotrequired; comey; fakenews; federalcourt; trump; yourefired

[Eleutheria5]

You're not the boss of me, now! You're not the boss of me, now!

[Obadiah]

More judicial activism designed solely to impede and tie down the Trump administration.

[Jeff Chandler]

Judicial resistance.

[Resolute Conservative]

Must be nice to have a job for life no matter how you perform.

[Dalberg-Acton]

“Force reduction”

[FlingWingFlyer]

When did the maggots in the black robe become the Executive Branche’s Human Resources Departments? Those Handmainden tails need to stay in their own lane!

[Skywise]

When you’re union you have to follow the union laws… except when you don’t because it’s not politically correct

[poinq]

This ruling directly contradicts the Supreme Court.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "More judicial activism designed solely to impede and tie down the Trump administration."

Comey's daughter is featured in the article, by name. One judge named was appointed by Obama. Another by Biden.

Notice deeper into the article: "The judge in neither Comans nor Comey’s cases has yet ruled on the merits of their appeals, which center on the administration improperly side-stepping due process requirements and unlawfully targeting them for political reasons."

How swiftly events are moving, as GovExec wrote later in the article: "Comey’s initial victory in court came on Tuesday..." Comey? Victory, but a day later he is arrested and charged?

But the last lawyer cited, Clarick Gueron Reisbaum ( along with the New York Civil Liberties Union ), is arguing in another case that people with felonies should be able to serve on juries in NY.

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Democrats, working hard for Democrats. Lawfare.

[Abathar]

Unless my employee has a contract, I can hire and fire at will here, no reason given.

Why can’t the federal government do the same? If the President can fire every single attorney when he takes office why can’t he fire a file clerk?

[libertylover]

The Feds are not allowed to have layoffs?

[MrRelevant]

Lol…. Did they have contracts?

[MrRelevant]

Same here. Its normal. This is the state of affairs in DC. Entitled lifers or poltical nepos not equipped to survive without the federal tit.

[Mouton]

“Senior Executive Service staff” also known as the deep state.

[Bishop_Malachi]

Must be nice to have a job for life no matter how you perform.

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...or regardless if it’s even needed at all.

[falcon99]

Interesting isn’t it that our great corrupt judges say Trump must follow exactly what Congress has laid out (or what the judges say Congress has laid out), yet when it comes to the judges, they can say that what Congress laid out can be ignored. This is an example of that. Congress established those civil service boards just for these purposes and these two corrupt judges say the process doesn’t have to be followed. The Judiciary under Roberts has lost all credibility with the American people and that is their only power.

[Ex-Con777]

Within one week of being inaugurated, Clinton fired all 93 federal attorneys without a peep from federal judges.

EC

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Let's have a moment of silent remembrance for the drug addled Irish whore monger who, as part of his election stealing payoff, unionized government employees.

All hail President Good Hair the Awful!

[bk1000]

Black robed tyrants.

[drypowder]

Imho; All federal and public employee positions ought to be classed as “at will” and none union.