A Key Official Is Trying to Weasel Out of Testifying About Trump’s Mass Firings. Good Luck!
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‘Do not intend to produce’: Trump admin says OPM head will defy court order to testify in mass firings case
"Defendants are withdrawing the declaration of Acting Office of Personnel Management and will not be presenting Mr. Ezell at the hearing." The post ‘Do not intend to produce’: Trump admin says OPM head will defy court order to testify in mass firings case first appeared on Law & Crime.
Judge orders Trump to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to reinstate thousands — if not tens of thousands — of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies last month, saying that the terminations were directed by a personnel office that had no authority to do so.
Trump Official Will No Longer Testify in Challenge to Mass Firings
The government said in a court filing that Charles Ezell, who issued the memos that agencies interpreted as orders to fire thousands of employees, would not appear in court Thursday.
Judge orders reinstatement of tens of thousands of illegally fired federal workers
U.S. District Judge William Alsup Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate tens of thousands of illegally fired federal employees across six federal agencies.
OPM Chief Won't Testify in Mass Federal Layoffs Challenge (2)
Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell won’t testify at a March 13 hearing in a lawsuit by government employee unions challenging the Trump Administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers,
Judge orders VA, DoD, USDA and others to offer reinstatement to thousands of fired probationary employees
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the Trump administration "lied" about its reasons for the mass terminations of probationary workers across the government.
Did a top Trump administration official lie about mass firings? A judge wants to know
A federal judge is requiring the head of the Office of Personnel Management to testify Thursday about the mass firing of probationary employees.
Justice Department says key Trump admin official won’t testify about probationary firings
The Justice Department told a federal judge on Tuesday that the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management won’t testify at a hearing later this week in a major case challenging the government’s efforts to cull the federal workforce,
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OPM chief rejects court order to testify on probationary firings as case expands governmentwide
Some Republicans push bills to protect workers as thousands of fired feds will rejoin the payroll this week, albeit on ...
Judge orders 6 agencies to offer reinstatement to fired probationary employees, finds OPM's terminations "unlawful"
U.S. District Judge William Alsup extended relief to fired workers at the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury.
California District Judge Orders Trump to Rehire Probationary Workers Cut in Mass Firings
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the Office of Personnel Management and its acting director, Charles Ezell, lacked the ...
‘Protect the government’: Trump DOJ urges judge to stop upcoming courtroom showdown with OPM director in mass firings case
The Trump administration is attempting to stop a Thursday hearing in its Office of Personnel and Management mass firing case ...
DOJ lawyers decline to let OMP's acting director testify about mass firings
The Trump administration could be sanctioned by a federal judge later this week after lawyers with the Department of Justice ...