In the 11 months since President Donald Trump returned to office, federal judges from California to Maryland have faulted his plans to force out droves of federal workers.
But even as judges across the country thwarted the administration’s firing plans, the Trump team sprinted to dramatically cut the size of the federal workforce as it tested legal limits in its quest to slash government bureaucracy.
While some court orders against Trump and his former right-hand man Elon Musk were overturned on procedural grounds, Skye Perryman — president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which has led many of the workforce lawsuits — said there is one message that resonates throughout the litigation.
“There has not been a court that has found the wholesale dismantling of the civil service is at all lawful,” Perryman said.
