Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-says-shes-inclined-block-181303600.html

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered on Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued the emergency order after federal agencies on Friday started issuing layoff notices aimed at reducing the size of the federal government. The layoff notices are part of an effort by Trump’s Republican administration to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

Illston said the administration was acting without thinking through its decisions.

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1. The Corrupt Supreme Court will apply the "Trump Can Do Whatever He Wants" precedent to this ruling

They're very intellectually serious people.

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2. Judge blocks Trump's layoffs during shutdown, calling them illegal

The administration began laying off federal workers last Friday.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-blocks-trumps-shutdown-layoffs-calling-illegal-rcna237837

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the government shutdown, which has now stretched to two weeks.

Two unions sued the Trump administration last month ahead of the shutdown after the White House signaled a plan to lay off workers through "reductions in force" (RIFs) at federal agencies. At a hearing on Wednesday, a federal judge in the Northern District of California granted the unions' motion to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the layoffs, which began on Friday.

“The activities that are being undertaken here are contrary to the laws," U.S. District Judge Susan Yvonne Illston said. “You can’t do this in a nation of laws.”

Illston said that the Trump administration had "taken advantage of the lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off, the laws don’t apply to them anymore, and they can impose the structures that they like on the government situation that they don’t like."