A Judge Blocks Trump’s Shutdown Cuts and Invites a Constitutional Showdown

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from proceeding with mass layoffs of federal employees during the government shutdown, calling the move “unprecedented” and “the epitome of hasty, arbitrary, and capricious decisionmaking.”

Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee in the Northern District of California, issued a temporary restraining order on Wednesday that halts all reduction-in-force (RIF) notices issued since October 10 and bars agencies from implementing or even counting down their effective dates. The injunction applies across more…

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