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A California-based federal judge has said that the Trump administration’s mass firing of federal employees is unlawful and should be stopped immediately. According to National Public Radio, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management must rescind directives ordering federal agencies to fire their probationary employees. Alsup issued his temporary
In a court filing, the New York Times asked a federal court to dismiss Baldoni’s lawsuit, saying that he is trying to “drag The Times into their larger feud with Lively.” Attorneys for the paper said that they did nothing but “engage in newsgathering and publishing an Article and Video about the Wayfarer/Lively dispute.”
“Defendants’ stop-work order will have severe consequences for the American people,” the amicus brief says. “The CFPB has been a resounding success.”
“Federal statute already prohibits any president from telling schools and colleges what to teach,” the American Federation of Teachers said. “And students have the right to learn without the threat of culture wars waged by extremist politicians hanging over their heads.”
Musk and DOGE are currently facing at least 20 other lawsuits, with one accusing the department of violating federal transparency laws.
In a Senate confirmation hearing, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren suggested that the CFPB’s decision to dismiss the lawsuits after McKernan’s nomination was not coincidental.
“It’s clear that this was a coordinated operation intended to sweep up as many people as possible, not based on any individualized reason, but based on their apparent race, ethnicity or occupation; arrest them and expel as many of them from the country as possible, regardless of whether they knew their rights or the consequences,” said ACLU of Northern California attorney Bree Bernwanger.
“Defendants failed to protect Mr. Laureano when they placed a particularly aggressive, violent, and discriminatory inmate with a history of severe physical assault and mental health issues with a vulnerable, 19-year-old black gay male, Mr. Laureano,” the lawsuit alleges.
“No investigation was conducted to determine if Ms. Crutchfield was the suspect, and a facial recognition database was used to identify her,” says the lawsuit, which also alleges that the Detroit Police Department’s facial recognition systems are vulnerable to racial bias.
“Without evidence or support, the Trump administration is using the power and resources of the federal government to launch a fullscale [sic] assault on DEIA—not only within federal agencies, but throughout the private sector in contravention of the Constitution and other federal laws,” the lawsuit alleges.