U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Baltimore issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday night that protects those workers while the lawsuit continues.
“Only states have sued here, and only to vindicate their interests as states,” Bredar wrote. “They are not proxies for the workers.”
The order requires the 18 agencies originally named in the lawsuit to follow the law in conducting any future reductions in force. Bredar has now added the Defense Department and the Office of Personnel Management to that number.
That matters only if there’s enforcement. Otherwise, judges are just old men in robes ranting and raving about the way the world used to work.
That a first step. Nobody will spontaneously defend your right. You have to do it yourself and associate to other people wanting to defend their rights too
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I’m tired of seeing this kind of defeatist response to good news. That judge is doing a good job.
This isn’t defeatism, it’s realism.
We’re already knee-deep in the constitutional crisis. Admitting that there’s a good chance that Trump will simply ignore the rulings against him isn’t discouraging, it’s radicalizing.
Admitting that there’s a good chance that Trump will simply ignore the rulings against him isn’t discouraging, it’s radicalizing.
That’s not what the above commentor was doing though. They were criticizing the judge for doing their job. That’s also known as “Obeying in advance.” Just because they’ll break the law doesn’t mean it’s not important to uphold the structure.
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I agree with you and appreciate the call out and the positivity. Too many new accounts on Lemmy lately that are commenting negative and defeatist things on positive headlines.
