Aaaaand, the official order granting the preliminary injunction which came down last night on the RIFs case (reductions in force, firings during the shutdown). Forty-seven bullshit pages about how scares and traumatized the union employees are, big bad Orange Man firing people for political retribution, arbitrary and capricious this, unjustifiable bias that, irreparable harm, blah dee fucking blah. I am forced to wonder who actually wrote this for the Clinton-appointed lady judge because listening to her in the hearings shows that he has no clue about any of this shit. In any event, here's the rundown of the actual injunction now in place:
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She gave the government a whole week (how generous!) to file an accounting of all the RIFs, and a whole ten days for each defendant organization to file all-new declarations about how they are complying. Like keeping the entire federal government after class to write "I will not be mean to the unions" over and over on the blackboard.
Now, we wait and see if/when the admin will seek a stay from a higher court, as they have repeatedly hinted, quietly, in previous filings. Fingers crossed.