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Little Laos <valid@sendit.com> wrote:

A federal judge in San Francisco has found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting some relief to a coalition of labor unions and organizations that has sued to stop the
Trump administration’s massive dismantling of the federal workforce.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel
Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including the Department of Defense.

“OPM does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the
history of the universe,” to hire or fire any employees but its own, he
said.

Alsup also ordered the acting head of the personnel office, Charles Ezell,
to testify in court in two weeks. Alsup did not buy Ezell’s written declaration that his office merely offered guidance to federal agencies
about what to do with probationary employees.

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-2-27-2025#

William Haskell Alsup is an American lawyer and jurist serving as
senior United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of California. He was appointed to the
Northern District of California in 1999 by President Bill Clinton.

He's also a Democrat from Jackson MS, 79 years old with one foot in
the grave. Trump will get to replace him before Christmas when he
kicks the bucket.

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