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  • Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules

    03/13/2025 10:39:54 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 186 replies
    Politico (Yeah, I know) ^ | March 13, 2025 | Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney
    A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office to sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce. Alsup, a San Francisco-based appointee of President Bill Clinton, ordered the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs to “immediately” offer all fired probationary employees their jobs back. The Office of Personnel Management, the judge said, had made...
  • Court nixes Trump rule limiting state authority to block pipelines

    10/22/2021 10:43:59 PM PDT · by blueplum · 14 replies
    The Hill ^ | 22 October 2021 | RACHEL FRAZIN
    A federal court on Thursday nixed a Trump-era rule that limited state and tribal authority to block projects that could impact their waters, including pipelines. California Federal Judge William Alsup vacated the rule and sent it back to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for further proceedings. The Clinton appointee's move came after the agency asked the court to remand the issue back to the EPA amid litigation filed by states and environmental groups... ...The now-vacated rule had limited states’ authorities to block projects by giving them a strict one-year time limit to do so before the federal government could decide...