A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday chided the Trump administration for continuing to flout its obligations under a restraining order barring the government from moving forward with a series of pre-planned layoffs during the government shutdown .

For the second time this week, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a Bill Clinton appointee, tore into U.S. Department of Justice attorneys over so-called reductions in force (RIFs) aimed at slashing federal payrolls.

The RIFs were first proposed late last month, before the shutdown began, the plaintiffs in the litigation pointed out in their 31-page complaint filed on Sept. 30 in the Northern District of California.

Friday's hearing was of the emergency type. The proceedings were hastily requested by the plaintiffs – and called for by th

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