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  • Democracy Wins as Court Strikes Down Trump’s Anti-Worker Executive Order

    08/26/2018 3:59:15 PM PDT · by mdittmar · 50 replies
    AFGE ^ | August 25, 2018 | AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr
    WASHINGTON – In a landmark decision, a federal judge has ruled that President Trump violated the U.S. Constitution and laws providing checks and balances in the federal government by attempting to deny more than 2 million federal workers their legal right to representation. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled late friday that the Trump administration’s May 25 executive order on official time violated the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the separation of powers as established in law. The American Federation of Government Employees, which was the first union to challenge President Trump’s...
  • Sentencing in House Democratic IT scandal lets Imran Awan off with only a slap on the wrist

    08/21/2018 1:29:16 PM PDT · by maddog55 · 39 replies
    Fox News ^ | 08/21/2018 | Frank Minter
    Tuesday was a lucky day for Imran Awan, the former IT administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. A federal judge sentenced him to three months of supervised release and no fine for one count of bank fraud – sparing him any jail time. Awan could have faced much more serious charges and a long prison sentence if he had been tried and convicted on accusations that he ran a spy ring inside Congress and stole congressional computer equipment. Yet stunningly, Awan was not charged with those crimes. Instead, federal prosecutors ignored their own compelling evidence implicating him in the...
  • U.S. judge rejects Trump directives easing ability to fire federal workers

    08/25/2018 11:04:50 AM PDT · by mandaladon · 97 replies
    Reuters ^ | 25 Aug 2018
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Saturday rejected key elements of President Donald Trump’s May executive orders that would make it easier to fire federal employees and reduce their ability to bargain collectively. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said in a court order that Trump’s orders, which also would reduce the amount of time low-performing employees had to improve their performance before being fired, “undermine federal employees’ right to bargain collectively.” Trump signed three executive orders in May that administration officials said would give government agencies greater ability to...