Federal Judge Rules Trump Mass Firing Order Was 'Illegal' and 'Should Be Stopped' | Common Dreams
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The Office of Personnel Management "does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency," wrote Judge William Alsup.

It was unclear, however, whether Alsup’s ruling would do much to stem the Trump administration’s sweeping purge of the federal workforce, as it was limited to agencies directly involved in the case. It was also not clear that the ruling would result in fired probationary employees getting their jobs back.

According toBloomberg Law, “the judge listed the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Science Foundation among the agencies that are barred from engaging in layoffs ordered by OPM.”

Politiconoted that “Alsup stopped short of ordering the agencies to reinstate the fired workers or to halt looming firing,” saying he “doesn’t currently have the authority to do that.”

  • PanamaltEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Then how do you propose we go about solving this little problem of ours, because sitting on our collective asses is decidedly a fucking horrible idea

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      I’m not sure, but the best option I can think of is ending the two party system. Both parties are broken, and this should at least force each to do better. Ideally, we end up in a situation where neither party controls Congress, because there are enough independents and third parties to force coalitions.

      But I’m not sure how to get there. So the natural approach is to do nothing.

      • PanamaltEnglish
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        12 hours ago

        I agree that the two parties definitely need to go, actually I think the entire idea of a party system at all is stupid and dangerous as it inevitably leads to one party gaining power over the others. If there is no banner for a candidate to hide behind then they are forced to get elected on their own merits alone. Hopefully this will be one of the good things to come out of all this bullshit.

        Also, this time really is different (but, not really, lol). This time doing nothing means people die or have their lives utterly annihilated.

        • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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          11 hours ago

          Yeah, I agree with the Founding Fathers that parties are bad, but people like organizing under labels, so it’s inevitable. Parties are a necessary evil IMO, so we should acknowledge that and design our system to support competition between many parties, not just two.