10/30/2024 (#5) ORDER FILED. A REVIEW OF THE DISTRICT COURTS DOCKET REFLECTS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DENIED APPELLANTS MOTION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS ON APPEAL BECAUSE IT FOUND THAT THE APPEAL WAS FRIVOLOUS. SEE 28 U.S.C. 1915(A)(3). THIS COURT MAY DISMISS A CASE ...
Federal judge blocks USAID leave notices and reinstates workers Attorneys representing the Trump administration confirmed Friday that upwards of 2,200 employees, many of whom are stationed overseas, would have been put on administrative leave Friday night, absent the court’s intervention. ...
Federal judge blocks USAID leave notices and reinstates workers Attorneys representing the Trump administration confirmed Friday that upwards of 2,200 employees, many of whom are stationed overseas, would have been put on administrative leave Friday night, absent the court’s intervention. Erich Wagne...
The National Treasury Employees Union late Monday filed a lawsuit against the new Trump administration over the President’s executive order that reclassifies large numbers of federal employees with the intent of making them at-will workers. The lawsuit states that the executive...
I’m not a big fan of bureaucracy, mostly because government employees are overpaid and they often work for departments and agencies that shouldn’t exist. Today, motivated by “public choice” insights about self-interested behavior, I want to make an important point about how bureaucracies oper...
Overall, we rate Downsizing the Federal Government Right-Center biased based on the endorsement of libertarian-leaning policy and High for factual reporting based on proper sourcing and a clean fact check record. (D. Van Zandt 6/2/2018) Updated (05/26/2024) ...
Harris also has led theWhite House’s responseto the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturningRoe v. Wade, which — with respect to federal employees — entails the VA providing abortions in certain cases, government workers being allowed to use sick leave to travel for re...
A ninth, unidentified AIJ was placed on “administrative leave.” The reassignments of these key quasi-judicial officials appears to be related to a memo sent to all agency heads from OPM on Jan. 20, stating: “No later than January 24, 2025, agencies should identify all employees on proba...
Three months ago, I broke a record that I had always thought unbreakable. My supervisor at the Federal Milk Market Administration tasked me with supporting 7 staff and over 70 projects. I argued that it couldn’t be done—after all, I’d supported at most 5 staff and 50 projects in the...
Cooper and other employees complained but Wise responded that he had unfettered freedom to say what he wanted and any staff who did not like his comments should leave. Wise told his human resources manager to fire anyone who complained and to space out the terminations to avoid any lawsuits. ...