Another Federal judge steps in ….
The Trump admin will go along with this due to a agreement reached with the Justice Department, which IS LISTENING to a Federal Court ordered agreement…
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) amid a larger push to effectively dismantle the agency.
The Trump administration is barred from firing CFPB employees without cause or issuing any reduction-in-force notice, as part of an agreement reached between the Department of Justice and the National Treasury Employees Union, which is suing alongside other groups over the changes to the agency.
They also cannot delete or remove CFPB data or transfer or return any of the agency’s funds, according to the order signed by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
The union’s lawyer, Deepak Gupta, voiced concerns at a court hearing Friday that the Trump administration was poised to conduct mass firings and delete the agency’s data.
A former CFPB official warned in a declaration submitted to the court earlier in the day that he had learned “leadership intends to fire massive numbers of Bureau staff today and into the weekend.”
Eric Meyer, the former chief technologist and senior advisor to the director, also said he had received reports that “reliably indicate that databases holding the CFPB’s data will soon be deleted.”….
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