A federal judge in California indicated Friday she would expand her temporary ruling blocking federal worker layoffs during the government shutdown, signaling her support for adding members of three additional labor groups.

Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, who is overseeing a challenge to the Trump administration’s shutdown layoffs, warned the government to err on the side of caution and said she does not think that layoffs should be happening while her temporary retraining order is in place.

“It is not complicated,” Illston said at a hearing. “During this time, these agencies should not be doing RIFs [reductions in force] of the protected folks that we’re talking about that have been enjoined.”

“A good lawyer, I think, would tell t

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