U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco delivered one of the most far-reaching court defeats to the Trump administration's efforts to gut the federal bureaucracy, according to the USA TODAY.
Alsup, appointed to the bench by former President Bill
Clinton, ordered six federal agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of federal
government probationary workers fired in recent weeks.
Alsup said the Justice Department tried to obfuscate that
the White House had improperly ordered agencies to fire workers en masse.
“I’ve been practicing or serving in this court for over 50
years and I know how we get at the truth, and you’re not helping me get at the
truth,” Alsup said. “You’re giving me press releases, sham documents.”
He also scolded the government for the bogus boilerplate reason employees were given for
their termination.
“It is a sad day when our government would fire some good
employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well
that’s a lie,” he said.
A federal judge in Maryland likewise said Thursday he didn't
believe the government's claim that the fired employees had been individually
reviewed.
"On the record before the Court, this isn't true,"
wrote U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar, who was appointed to the bench by
former President Barack Obama. "It is simply not conceivable that the
Government could have conducted individualized assessments of the relevant
employees in the relevant timeframe."
After Alsup's ruling, White House press secretary Karoline
Leavitt accused the Bay Area judge of "attempting to unconstitutionally
seize the power of hiring and firing from the executive branch."
"If a federal district court judge would like executive
powers, they can try and run for president themselves,” she said in a statement.
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