A federal district court judge expressed a certain level of annoyance with the U.S. Supreme Court in an order related to the Trump administration 's "unlawful" firing of 16,000 federal workers.

On Friday, in a 38-page order on motions for summary judgment, U.S. District Judge William Alsup, a Bill Clinton appointee, largely ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and decidedly against the government.

"In early 2025, the Office of Personnel Management directed agencies across the federal government to terminate their probationary employees en masse," the judge noted. "That directive was unlawful. The means used to enforce terminations were also unlawful."

But, the judge noted, the relief offered by the court's order was severely cabined by the facts on the ground – and he blamed the nation's hi

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