Federal Judge Puts Trump’s Layoff Train Back on the Tracks

By streiff 

 

A federal judge has lifted the “pause” he had imposed on the Trump administration, enforcing its February 6 deadline for participating in the “Fork in the Road” buyout plan; see Trump’s Government Purge Hits Major Roadblock As Judge Puts Brakes on ‘Fork in the Road’ Buyout – RedState. The five-page order by Federal District Judge and Clinton appointee George A. O’Toole, Jr., of the  United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts demolished the claims by the four public employees unions trying to stop the program.

The lawsuit was mostly stupid, but it had some humorous parts.

1) The ACLU believes there are four branches of the government.
2) It's favorite "branch" is the imaginary one that has zero democratic accountability. https://t.co/bdcahKIVKz

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) February 12, 2025

Judge O’Boyle ruled that [shocked face] none of the plaintiffs had standing to file suit to stop the buyout because they’d suffered no harm. Indeed, virtually every one of the court actions filed to stymie the Trump administration could be settled in five minutes if judges simply took the idea of “standing” seriously. The unions had claimed harm because they were being forced to spend time and money trying to stop the buyout, which could be devoted to other, unnamed, and probably criminal, union activities. Judge O’Boyle said the plaintiffs can’t “spend their way into standing, neither can the plaintiffs in this case establish standing by choosing to divert resources towards “respond[ing] to tremendous uncertainty created by OPM’s actions” and away from other union priorities.”

The bigger picture was the nature of the complaint itself…

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (redstate.com)

 

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