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Two different judges on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s firing of probationary employees at several federal agencies, allowing thousands of workers to get their jobs back for now.

Both judges found that the government had not followed the proper legal procedures for the mass firings, which were carried out within weeks of President Trump’s return to the White House in an effort to rapidly shrink the size of the federal workforce.

The first, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in California, found that probationary workers from the Agriculture, Energy, Interior, Treasury, Defense and Veterans Affairs departments should be offered their jobs back immediately, describing the process by which they had been terminated as a “sham” and “unlawful.”

Hours later, U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Maryland issued a similar ruling in a case brought by 20 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia. Bredar ordered the reinstatement of probationary employees fired from a group of 18 agencies, including the Department of Commerce, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Bredar said the Trump administration hadn’t complied with federal regulations that govern mass layoffs, or “reductions in force.” The vast scale of the firings, and the short timeline in which they were conducted, made clear that probationary workers were being laid off en masse, rather than getting fired for performance or other specific issues, as the government had claimed, the judge wrote.
 

A new lawsuit from Democratic attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia alleges this week’s mass layoffs at the Department of Education are gutting the agency as a way to implement an unlawful plan by President Donald Trump to dismantle the department.

The states accuse the administration of “effectively nullifying” mandates by Congress that require the department to carry out certain functions.

“Here, where Congress has created the Department of Education, the Executive and his agencies cannot incapacitate it, absent Congressional action that directs them to do so,” the lawsuit said.

On Tuesday, the administration announced that it was cutting nearly half of the Department’s staff, with roughly 1,300 employees notified this week that they would be terminated in 90 days.

The attorneys general say that with the layoffs, the administration is severely handicapping Department of Education offices created explicitly by Congress, including the Office of Civil Rights, which is losing the majority of its staff, according to the complaint.

The lawsuit highlighted other offices that they work closely with on education issues that were being “effectively eliminated” with the so-called Reduction in Force. The effects are already being felt, the attorneys general said, alleging that an online system for grant distribution was inaccessible in the wake of the RIF announcement.
 
fishonjazz said:
I just finished the entire video. Really good watch.
Just makes me hate technology and then Internet more than I already did.

Also makes me glad that I have/use way less apps than the average person (still have never had a Twitter, Instagram, or tik tok account)
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Same. I got off Facebook over a decade ago and haven't missed it and I go to message boards, mostly this one, but I never had a Twitter or tiktok or anything either and I'm damn glad of that.
 
enchilada_style said:
My dad has become a closet trumper. He pretends hes reasonable but hits all the trump talking points. His wife has had conspiracy theory fever since Covid. After seeing them for Christmas I haven’t talked to them since. A lot of the **** they say is just hateful and I don’t want my daughter around it. I’ve hit a wall, I have zero tolerance for the ******** anymore.
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Sorry man, my dad's a brainwashed kook too. He watches Fox News all day.
 
gandalfe said:
I feel lucky that my father, even tho he fell for a Ukrainian love scam (gave them over $100,000) still maintained his values from when he got beaten up by the Chicago cops during a civil rights march and thrown in jail with Dick Gregory in the 60s.
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That's something to be proud of. I wonder if he's becoming a Trumper because of his wife. Do they watch Fox News?
 
str8line said:
That's something to be proud of. I wonder if he's becoming a Trumper because of his wife. Do they watch Fox News?
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Oh, no, my Dad was a staunch liberal until the day he died. My step-mother was, too. Step-mom died about 6 years ago, Dad 2 1/2 years ago - the Ukranian "girl" (I am 100% sure it was just a group of people responding, probably from one of the forced camps in Myanmar) was in the intervening time.

He told me one time he remembered exactly when he became anti-racist. It was when he was growing up in Detroit in the 40s, there was a bunch of racial riots and such. He was at the swimming pool, probably 6 or 7 years old, and a bunch of black teenagers came into the pool and were just ripping through the place, beating up people. He and a bunch of other kids were shielded by a black woman who shouted, "You are NOT touching these babies!" and he realized, "Oh, it's not skin color, it's just people."
 
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