Trump, Appeals court and federal
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A federal appeals court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump to remove leaders of two independent agencies for now while the judges decide whether the president has the authority to fire them.
From The Washington Post
Voice of America, which was founded in 1942, provides news programming in 49 languages to dozens of countries around the world, including places like China and Iran where citizens have limited access...
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The president has attacked law firms for “frivolous” litigation. But his actions could undermine the basic right of Americans to sue their government.
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Trump, collective bargaining and federal unions
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday evening to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions for some agencies.
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said late Thursday that it is “preparing immediate legal action and will fight relentless...
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump’s firing of the head of a board that resolves disputes between federal employees and the government was unlawful. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s ruling in favor of Susan Grundmann,
President issues an executive order excluding certain agencies from federal labor-management relations, citing national security.
President Donald Trump suffered another legal loss Wednesday in his bid to fire leaders of the federal agencies that supervise labor disputes.
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday overturned district court rulings that had ordered the reinstatement of fired adjudicatory entity members.
President Donald Trump's mass firings of permanent federal employees have already begun and are expected to accelerate over the next few weeks with tens of thousands more employees terminated. But the layoffs didn't come out of nowhere.
the Federal Labor Relations Authority and other independent agencies have been challenged in federal court. Now, it appears likely one of those cases will reach the Supreme Court. With several cases in the running, the question is which might get there first.
The Trump administration will try to persuade a federal appeals court to block rulings that sent two illegally fired independent agency officials back to work.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office.