This judge joins a growing list of judges halting President Musk, and Trump’s actions….
The judge could order the 500 aready sent from work back to work…
The two guys have assumed power Congress may have NOT actually afforded them with out permission…
The decision came only a day after a filing by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees asking the court to declare unlawful what they called “a series of unconstitutional and illegal actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration that have systematically dismantled” USAID without authorization from Congress
The suit represents the first legal challenge to the push by Trump and his allies, led by billionaire Elon Musk and his U.S. DOGE Service, or Department of Government Efficiency, targeting U.S. foreign aid programs and USAID staff as part of their drive to reshape the federal government.
Those efforts have included orders freezing a broad swath of foreign aid programs and firing, furloughing or putting on leave the vast majority of USAID staff at its Washington headquarters and abroad….
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The lawsuit is just one of a score of legal challenges mounted by Trump opponents in recent days as they seek to slow or halt the administration’s barrage of actions, including steps to pare back the administrative state, curtail spending and eradicate diversity initiatives….
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But he [Nichols] said after a 90-minute hearing that the claimants established that they could suffer “irreparable harms” to their families, finances and security overseas, with “enough likelihood of success on the merits.”…
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Plaintiffs attorney Karla Gilbride said the actions were part of a “cascade” of irreparable harms to workers posed by the shutdown of the agency. Workers would be cut off from communications systems that ensure security in dangerous environments overseas; payment systems would be shuttered; workers themselves could be exposed to liability for unpaid funding obligations and face immediate threats to their family’s stability and health.
“The president does not have authority to do this,” she said. USAID “is an independent agency created by Congress, and if it is to be reorganized in this manner, it needs to be done through the proper congressional path.”
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