A federal judge in California has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to keep communications about its plans to lay off workers a “secret” as a fight over the legality of those plans continues.
California District Judge Susan Illston issued an order Friday that rejected the Trump administration’s bid to keep communications about its layoff plans private. It’s the latest chapter in a court fight over widespread layoff plans — a legal battle that continues after the Supreme Court intervened earlier this month to undo Illston’s injunction that had stalled layoffs across much of the government.
The Friday order from Illston, a Clinton appointee, sets an Aug. 11 deadline for the Trump administration to produce internal communications about layoffs and reorganization plans between agencies and officials with the White House budget office, the Office of Personnel or the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
Prior to Illston’s order, a federal appeals court last week agreed to block another Illston order that the administration produce agencies’ full layoff and reorganization plans.
