A federal judge on Thursday night ordered that thousands of federal workers dismissed by the Trump administration be temporarily restored.
The American district judge James Bredar in Maryland issued a temporary restriction order against dozens of agencies, departments and their leaders throughout the federal government that workers had finished as part of the work reduction efforts.
“In this case, the government made mass dismissals, but did not warn in advance. He states that it was not necessary because, he says, he dismissed each of these thousands of test employees for ‘performance’ or other individualized reasons, “he wrote in his ruling.
“In the registry before the court, this is not true. There were no individualized evaluations of the employees. All were dismissed. Collectively,” he added.
Hours before, a federal judge in California ordered that the departments of veteran, defense, energy, interior, agriculture and treasure offer restoration to the thousands of evidence that the Trump administration ended last month. The Department of Justice presented an appeal notice in that case.
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The Order to Bredar applies to 12 departments that have fired the test workers: the departments of agriculture, commerce, education, energy, health and human services, national security, housing and urban development, interior, work, transport, treasury and veteran issues.
It also applies to probation workers who were recently fired in the United States Agency for International Development, the Office of Consumer Financial Protection, the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the General Service Administration and the administration of small businesses.
They were given a deadline before March 17 at 1 PM ET to restore affected employees.
Bredar recognized the impact of his order in the midst of the government of the government of Around 200,000 test employees, workers who are contracted recent or had taken new positions, since President Donald Trump took office in January.
“The court is not blind to the practical reality that the relief that is ordered today will have long -range impacts on the Federal Labor Force and will require the government to spend considerable resources in an effort to undo the [reductions in force] They have put themselves in their place, ”Bredar wrote.
“When, as probably is the case here, the government has been involved in an illegal scheme that covers broad strips of the Federal Labor Force, it is inevitable that the remediation of that scheme is a significant task,” he added.
A group of states with general Democratic prosecutors had brought the lawsuit in search of a temporary restriction order that would allow employees to be restored, arguing that the Trump administration ignored the protocol for the mass terminations of federal employees.
The Department of Defense, the Office of Personnel Management and the National Archives were excluded from the judge’s order due to the provision of “insufficient evidence” that there had been a reduction in force, Bredar wrote.
California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, praised the ruling in an X publication.
“We are satisfied with the decision of the court to restrict the reckless directive of the Trump administrator and continue monitoring and guaranteeing compliance,” he wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
