A federal judge in San Francisco ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of federal employees in six federal agencies who had been terminated since President Trump’s inauguration. Ruling from the bench, 79-year-old Clinton appointee Judge William Alsup castigated the administration.
“You will not bring the people in here to be cross-examined. You’re afraid to do so because you know cross examination would reveal the truth,” the judge said to a DOJ attorney during a hearing Thursday. “I tend to doubt that you’re telling me the truth. … I’m tired of seeing you stonewall on trying to get at the truth.”
Alsup also said the administration attempted to circumvent federal laws on reducing the workforce by attributing the firings to “performance” when that was not in fact the case. The judge called the move “a gimmick.”
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