A Federal District Court Judge has issued an order today that may return fired National Park Employees (NPS) to their jobs. The NPS is part of the Department of the Interior. While the actions of the Trump administration violate both Federal law and the Code of Federal Regulations Section 5, the administration will try to appeal the ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Here are the relevant sections from the Reuters report posted an hour ago:
(Reuters) – A California federal judge on Thursday ordered six U.S. agencies to reinstate thousands of recently hired employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal workforce.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge William Alsup during a hearing in San Francisco was the most significant blow yet to the effort by Trump and top adviser Elon Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. Government agencies face a Thursday deadline to submit plans for a second wave of mass layoffs and to slash their budgets.
Alsup’s ruling applies to probationary employees at the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Interior and the Treasury Department.
The judge said the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the human resources department for federal agencies, had improperly ordered those agencies to fire workers en masse even though it lacked the power to do so.
“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,” said Alsup,
