Federal Appeals Court Bats Down Clinton Judge, Lifts Block on Trump’s Executive Order to Strip Federal Workers’ Union Rights
Last month a federal judge blocked President Trump’s executive order to strip federal workers of their ‘collective bargaining’ rights.
President Trump previously issued an executive order blocking hundreds of thousands of federal workers in HHS, Veterans, Treasury and other federal agencies.
The National Treasury Employees Union sued the Trump Administration in response to the executive order.
US District Judge Paul Friedman, a Clinton appointee, blasted Trump earlier this week during a hearing on this case.
“So, he’s willing to be kind to those that work with him, but those that have sued him, those that have filed grievances, those that have complained against him, he’s not going to bargain with,” Judge Friedman said, according to Politico. “I mean how else can you read what he’s done?”
Friedman previously called Trump’s executive order “unlawful” and enjoined all defendants except President Trump.
On Friday evening, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Clinton judge’s ruling and lifted the block on Trump’s executive order.