A federal judge in Washington, DC, allowed President Donald Trump to continue mass firings of federal bureaucrats after unions asked the layoffs to be temporarily blocked.
A local CBS affiliate reported:
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper acknowledged the struggles the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and four other unions are facing but that they fail “to establish that it is likely to succeed on the merits because this Court likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the claims it asserts. The Court will therefore deny the unions’ motion for a temporary restraining order and, for the same reasons, deny their request for a preliminary injunction.”
The ruling comes as thousands of federal government employees have been laid off due to Trump’s Feb. 11 executive order for “large-scale reductions” in the workforce.
The unions represent hundreds of…
