Judge orders halt to federal employees’ terminations, ruling they were handled improperly

NATIONWIDE — PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST HALT THE TERMINATIONS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES in at least eight agencies, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The Washington Post and other agencies reported that Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, in part granting a request from unions representing the terminated workers, ruled that the firings were handled improperly.

While the Trump administration claimed that agencies are given broad authorities in workplaces in order to conform with Trump’s priorities, Illston ruled for the unions, saying that the firings were based on a false premise that the government can renege on its obligations during a shutdown, the layoffs were politically-motivated to exploit the shutdown, and Trump unlawfully used the complicated reduction-in