These people are barely human, if at all.On the 28th day of the government shutdown, a federal judge extended her order blocking the Trump administration from using the occasion to fire thousands of workers.
The leader of Democracy Forward, one of the advocacy groups behind the lawsuit, celebrated the ruling.
“This order is positive for the American people and a major blow to the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful attempt to make the Project 2025 playbook a reality by targeting our nation’s career public servants, who work for all Americans,” the group’s CEO and president Skye Perryman wrote in a statement.
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Before she issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston commented on “the human cost” of the Trump administration’s “politically motivated” decision to lay off thousands of people during the government shutdown.
On Tuesday, Illston began a roughly 90-minute hearing by reading the stories of some of the workers affected, including a sworn declaration from Air Force veteran Sonya Crocker.
“Prior to my current job, I worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and before that I was in the United States Air Force,” Crocker wrote. “During all that time, including during my combat deployment, I have never gone through anything as traumatizing as what I am now experiencing.”
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[Justice Department senior attorney Michael Velchik] argued that the public voted for Trump’s mass layoffs.
“I mean the American people selected someone known above all else for his eloquence in communicating to employees that, ‘You’re fired’ — like, this is what they voted for,” said Velchik, quoting Trump’s tagline on “The Apprentice.”
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“Eloquence of doing so?” Illston repeated, incredulously.
“Yes, he’s known for, above all, I think that is sort of what he was known for,” Velchik insisted.
Attorney Danielle Leonard, representing a coalition of unions led by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), carried out Velchik’s argument to its logical endpoint.
“What counsel is arguing is that if Congress lets government funding lapse for one day, the president can fire the entire federal government,” Leonard noted. “That is absurd.”
UPDATE 05:19 pm:
I'm pretty sure there won't be a lot of body cam video, nor will there be many - if any - use of force reports.
Bovino personally tossed a gas canister into a crowd. But the fact that he has to personally go to her with the report speaks volumes about how serious she is. Of course, he's a Trump goon. We'll have to see if he complies.
UPDATE 06:29 pm:
Jackass. Or cow. Is Bovino Italian for cow?
UPDATE 10/29/2025:
You knew that was coming.
You knew that was coming.
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