On Wednesday, a federal judge will examine the fate of more than 20,000 probationary government employees bound by the Trump administration.
During a hearing at the Maryland American district court, Judge James Bredar will plan to propose a temporary ban order which would block future layoffs and restore the probationary employees who have already been dismissed.
The court hearing intervened after 20 Democratic prosecutors continued to block layoffs last week.
The demonstrators have solidarity signs with the American Federation of Employees of the District 14 Government during a rally in support of federal workers at the staff management office in Washington, March 4, 2025.
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“These large -scale and blind layoffs do not only submit the applicant’s states and the communities across the country to chaos. in their complaintwhich appointed 41 agencies and agency heads as defendants.
The attorneys general argued that the Trump administration had violated the federal law with the layoffs by not giving a required notice of 60 days for a reduction in force, choosing to continue the dismissals “suddenly and without notice”.
Lawyers from the Ministry of Justice have argued that states are missing Because they “cannot intervene in employment relations between the United States and government workers”, and the granting of the temporary prohibition order “would bypass” the administrative process to contest the layoffs.
In separate proceedings, two other federal judges refused to immediately block the dismissals of federal employees or to restore them in their posts.
“The third time is not the charm. Like unions and organizational complainants, states are foreign to employment relations in question and cannot disrupt the exclusive reparation regime that Congress has set up to judge these disputes,” said lawyers with the DoJ.
