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Federal judge allows Trump to push forward with buyouts for government workers

2025-02-13

Oboy — things are going to accelerate now.

[NYPOST] A federal judge on Wednesday declined to pause the Trump administration's buyout program for government workers, giving President Trump a key win in his push to shrink the size of the federal government.

US District Judge George A. O'Toole ruled that the union groups suing to block the so-called ''Deferred Resignation'' program lacked standing and that his Massachusetts-based court lacked the jurisdiction to proceed with the lawsuit.

O'Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton

...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
, temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management from moving ahead with the program earlier this week, after unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers charged that that the buyout offers were unlawful.

''The plaintiffs here are not directly impacted by the directive,'' the judge ruled. ''Instead, they allege that the directive subjects them to upstream effects including a diversion of resources to answer members' questions about the directive, a potential loss of membership, and possible reputational harm.''

''The unions do not have the required direct stake in the Fork Directive, but are challenging a policy that affects others, specifically executive branch employees,'' O'Toole continued. ''This is not sufficient.''

Courtesy of Frank G, 10 News adds:

You KNOW this hurt to print
In a Wednesday ruling, a judge dissolved an existing temporary restraining order against the buyouts and declined to enact a preliminary injunction that would have paused the process.

That’s the so-called “Fork in the Road" or “Fork Directive” TRO ….

A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration's buyout of federal workers can proceed.

In a Wednesday ruling, Judge George A. O'Toole dissolved an existing temporary restraining order against the buyouts and declined to enact a preliminary injunction that would have paused the process.

It was his own TRO that he dissolved upon mature reflection. Annoying, but good for him, and no real harm done. In fact, he established a useful precedent for all the other judicial nonsense going on around the President Trump EOs.

The judge ruled that the worker unions that brought the suit did not have standing to sue, and argued that they should have gone through the administrative process of appealing to managers and other officials within their organizations before seeking a legal remedy.

Wait — does that mean the unions have another chance at the thing? It’s a good thing I am not a lawyer, because I confuse much too easily.

The ruling could have implications for whether and how other lawsuits can be brought against the buyout program.

Posted by:Fred

#4 Saint Yogi teaches us that if you come to a fork in the road, you should take it.

In other news, a judge comes to his senses and rules that Donald Trump, having been elected President of the United States, is entitled to do president stuff.

I do like that part where the judge dissolved his own TRO. "Shit fire! What was I thinking?"

Posted by: SteveS 2025-02-13 16:12

#3 I thought the judicial standard was that no one has standing regarding anything.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-02-13 13:54

Posted by: DarthVader 2025-02-13 02:07

#1 Elon Musk says 'the matrix is being reprogrammed' as DOGE begins mass layoffs of federal workers in sweeping government overhaul

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-02-13 00:48

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