An appeals court on April 9 lifted a court order requiring 20 federal agencies to reinstate newer workers they had fired, clearing the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume mass terminations.
The federal judge who entered the order appears to have gone beyond his remit, the majority of a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit judges said in a ruling staying his order as the government’s appeal is considered.
“The Government is likely to succeed in showing the district court lacked jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims, and the Government is unlikely to recover the funds disbursed to reinstated probationary employees,” Circuit Judge Allison Jones Rushing said in the opinion, with which Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III concurred....
