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• Court Issues Widescale Ban on RIFs, Reorganizations; Administration Appeals - May 14, 2025

• FEDweek

  A federal court has ordered that federal agencies stop conducting RIFs and reorganizations under a Trump administration executive order and follow-up guidance, a ban that the administration immediately appealed.

  The temporary restraining order issued May 9 by Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California blocks further actions for 14 days while she considers further steps. The case, brought by a coalition of unions including the AFGE, non-profit organizations and local governments, is the most wide-reaching of numerous legal challenges to the administration’s efforts to cut federal employment in general and to abolish or virtually abolish various individual agencies.
  
  “Federal courts should not micromanage the vast federal workforce, but courts must sometimes act to preserve the proper checks and balances between the three branches of government,” Judge Illston wrote, concluding that “the President has neither constitutional nor, at this time, statutory authority to reorganize the executive branch.”

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