Federalist Society leader defends ‘demonstrably conservative’ Coney Barrett
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been the object of the online right’s rage ever since she ruled against the Trump administration last week in its bid to freeze foreign aid payments. But the ...
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OPM chief rejects court order to testify on probationary firings as case expands governmentwide
Some Republicans push bills to protect workers as thousands of fired feds will rejoin the payroll this week, albeit on ...
Justice Department says key Trump admin official won’t testify about probationary firings
The Justice Department told a federal judge on Tuesday that the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management won’t ...
S.F. judge to Trump official: Testify on federal employee firings or face sanctions
The federal judge who ruled that the Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers were illegal says the official ...
In showdown with S.F. judge, Trump admin argues official can’t be required to testify
The Trump administration said Monday that an official who was ruled to have ordered the firings of thousands of probationary ...
Growing judicial voices challenge Trump’s erosion of constitutional norms
Federal judges hearing Trump administration litigation have increasingly gone beyond the case at hand to reflect on potential ...
‘They do not intend to comply’: Trump admin ‘will not produce’ agency head for court-ordered testimony, plaintiffs say
The Trump administration is refusing to comply with a court order requiring acting OPM head Charles Ezell to testify about ...
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Federal board orders temporary reinstatement of thousands of USDA probationers
In response to the order, the federal investigator who requested the stay called on “all federal agencies to” rescind ...
Federal Judge Rules Firing Public-Land Workers Was Illegal, Agrees It ‘Will Inflict Immediate, Foreseeable Harm’ to Habitat and Wildlife
The lawsuit indicates some employees at the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and USFWS were wrongly fired ...
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OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed
The Office of Personnel Management has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to identify probationary employees ...
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US judge in San Francisco will hear request by unions to halt mass firings of probationary workers
Labor unions are asking a federal judge in San Francisco for an emergency injunction blocking the mass firings of ...