A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to order the restoration of thousands of probationary employees last month.
US District Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump Administration to order employees in the Department of Veteran Affairs, Agriculture Department, Defense Department, Department of Energy, Energy, Department, Interior Department and Treasury Department.
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He stopped the management office of the management from issuing any guidance about whether the employees could be abolished.
Clinton’s appointment Alsup also ordered the immediate discovery and statement of the office of Nuah Peters, Senior Advisor to Personnel Management, which has been aligned with the Department of Government Efficiency of Elon Musk.
The judge called the judge “Sham” to provide OPM Acting Director Charles Azel for cross-execution and withdraw his oath announcement.
“The government, I believe, tried to disappoint the judge’s ability to disappoint what happened here, and then the Sham announcements were determined,” he said. “This is not a way to work in the American district court.”
White House press secretary Karolin Lewit slammed the judge in a statement on Thursday afternoon, “to immediately fight back against this absurd and unconstitutional order.”
“If a federal district court judge would like the executive powers, he can try and run for the President himself. The Trump administration will immediately fight back against this absurd and unconstitutional order,” he said in a statement.
The lawyers of the Department of Justice filed an appeal after the ruling, indicated their plan to challenge the order to restore employees.
Lawyers representing a group of unions and interest groups asked Alsup to immediately restore thousands of probationary government employees, who were allegedly abolished under Azel’s direction.
The plaintiff’s lawyer Daniel Lionard said, “There is a mountain of evidence before the court that the OPM directed it. OPM’s action was illegal. The plaintiffs have stood up, and there is an irreparable loss that is happening every minute, and it’s snowballing,” said the plaintiff’s lawyer Danilla Lyonard.
President Donald Trump attends a St. Patrick’s Day event in the eastern room of the White House on March 12, 2025 in Washington.
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He said, “You will not bring people here to cross-examining. You are afraid to do so, because you know, cross-execution reveals the truth. This is an American district court.” “I suspect that you are telling me the truth.”
If the Trump administration wants to reduce the size of the federal government, it would need to follow the process established in the federal law, said Alsup.
He said, “The words I give you today, they should not be taken as any kind of wild and crazy judge in San Francisco, saying that administration cannot be reduced.”
Alsup said, “OPM wanted to keep it on ‘performance’, at least in my decision, a gimmick to avoid their deficiency in the Force Act because the law always allows you to set fire to someone for performance,” Alsup said, employees were abolished for “demonstrations”.
The judge also criticized the government, which was to submit an announcement from Azel, which he considered to be false, then withdrawn it and made Azel unavailable to testimony.
“You withdrew his announcement instead of doing so. Come on, this is a sham. It bothers me. I want you to know that I have been practicing or serving in this court for more than 50 years. And I know how we are really meeting, and you are not helping me add the truth.
The National President of the American Federation of Government Employees Averet Kelly praised the judge’s decision.
He said in a statement, “We are grateful to these employees and do important work done by him, and AFGE will continue to fight until all the federal employees who were removed unjust and illegally are given their jobs back,” he said in a statement.
While the judge had originally suggested Avenue to fight firing, he said that the Trump administration is trying to “cannibal” and “cannibal” to the merit system protection board by firing its chief and special lawyer Hampton Delinger.
“I was misled on something that there was no jurisdiction,” said Alsup.
The judge also ordered the discovery, he said, “To bring it to truth because the government is saying one thing, and you are saying another.”
Alsup said, “I just want to say that this is a sad day when our government would fire some good employees and say that it was based on the performance when they know well and well that it is a lie.” “It should not have been done in our country. It was a shame to try to avoid statutory requirements. ,
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