This Judge went for the GOLD…..
EVERYBODY he says…..
He takes the view that CONGRESS has made that ONLY Exceutive Departements and Agencies can fire poeople WITHIN THEIR agencies….
NOT The Office of Personnel Management ….
The ‘Cease and Desist ‘ Order is temporay Two Weeks…….
The judge want’s people REHIRED….
THIS IS GAME CHANGER IF Trump/Musk actually follows the Judges order….
“Congress has given the authority to hire and fire to the agencies themselves. The Department of Defense, for example, has statutory authority to hire and fire,” Alsup said from the bench as he handed down the ruling Thursday evening in federal court in San Francisco. “The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees at another agency. They can hire and fire their own employees.”…
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“How could so much of the workforce be amputated, suddenly, overnight? It’s so irregular and so widespread and so aberrant in the history of our country. How could this all happen with each agency deciding on its own to do something so aberrational?” said Alsup, who was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1999. “I don’t believe it.”
The unions said in a legal filing that “[n]o federal agency had announced any terminations of probationary employees in the positions each agency carefully vetted, authorized, and hired employees to perform, prior to OPM’s order.” They added that OPM barely gave officials a chance to justify keeping probationary workers: “OPM required agencies to adhere to a 200-character limit in any explanation provided as to why any individual employee should be retained by the agency.”…
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“Probationary employees are the lifeblood of these agencies,” the judge said Thursday. “They come in at the low level and work their way up, and that’s how we renew ourselves and reinvent ourselves.”…
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