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The Trump administration continues to face Frustration in court In order to significantly reduce the size of the government this week, in some cases, plaintiffs accused the government of trying to avoid judicial orders.

A federal judge in California found that a U.S. personnel administration memorandum directed thousands of probation employees to fire was illegal, Should be abolishedwhile another person in Washington, D.C. ordered the resumption of foreign aid released a few weeks ago.

Plaintiffs and judge accuse the government in foreign aid case Continue the stone walland the plaintiff in the case involved Refugee program funding suspension The government has failed to fully comply with the court order.

This is the whirlpool of legal development over the past week.

A federal judge in California ordered OPM to cancel a memo and email to tell agency on Thursday Get rid of the probation employee. The direction is on January 20th memorandum Judge William Alsup said the February 14 internal email was “illegal” and “should be stopped,” Judge William Alsup said.

“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority to hire and fire employees in another agency under any regulations in the history of the universe.” The judge found out. “It can hire its own employees, yes. It can fire them. But it can’t order or instruct other agencies to do so,” Alsup said.

His ruling did not restore thousands of employees who have been fired, but probation employees at the Department of Defense (few workers who have worked for less than two years) were ahead of the expected termination of the Department.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ordered the government to comply with his Order on February 13 Prevent blankets from freezing from the State Department and the U.S. International Development Agency’s assistance to foreign countries. The frustrated judge also went further, ordering them to release funds by midnight before midnight after a Justice Department lawyer could not tell him what steps they took to comply with his orders.

The government then said for the first time in its filing the next day that it would take weeks to freeze the money and called on a panel of three judges in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend the deadline. The appeals court rejected the government’s bid, and the government then turned to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts Released accommodation.

The plaintiff asked the High Court to refuse the appeal last Friday and said the government “created an emergency on its own” and went to the court.

In the court application in the basic case, the government argued that the order is now in line with the order, as all 12,000 grants and awards since then were subject to personal review and the task of Secretary of State Marco Rubio “has now a final decision on each award has been made on a personal basis, with a positive choice to retain the award or terminate the award or terminate the award.” The document said more than 10,000 awards had been terminated.

The plaintiffs believed that these terminations were illegal and that delays were disastrous in more than one aspect.

“The defendant’s actions resulted in any disputes about death, poverty, disease and waste,” they wrote worldwide, and they “did not resolve the thousands of American jobs and counts–lost as a direct result of blanket freezing.”

Seattle federal judge Blocked on Tuesday Trump’s executive order is suspended American refugee enrollment planagree with the plaintiff’s argument that the order may exceed the president’s power.

“The president has substantial discretion to suspend refugee admissions. However, the agency is not unlimited,” U.S. District Court Judge Jamal Whitehead said in his ruling. “He cannot ignore the detailed framework for Congress to admit refugees and its limitations on the president’s ability to suspend it.”

Whitehead said he will make a written decision in the coming days, and on Thursday, the aid group that filed the lawsuit said the government was trying to circumvent his upcoming decision by formally deciding to terminate his refugee aid contract. They requested an emergency hearing to “make sure the defendant is not allowed to evade the court’s substitute ruling and evade the court’s written order with an antics designed to confuse the playing state.”

The American Catholic Bishops’ Conference is also seeking restrictive orders. The suspension prevented the organization from “receiving the funds needed to perform its mission to assist refugees that the government has placed in care.”

On Thursday, the government filed a “Major Fact Change Notice” informing Judge that the USCCB’s contract was terminated and therefore its claim should now be considered a contractual dispute and should be heard in the federal claims court. Government lawyer Joseph Carilli doubled that position at a hearing Friday. “This harm is about money, they want to be reimbursed. It’s about money,” he said.

The organization said it was about its mission and argued that the judge should still take action. It’s in a Register.

A federal judge in Maryland released Temporary restriction order Unless OPM and the Ministry of Education allow it to work with Elon Musk personnel Ministry of Government Efficiency By accessing records with sensitive personal information.

this Order U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Board of Directors follows a similar ruling last week No access except tickets Records in the Ministry of Finance.

The board found that plaintiffs in cases, including members of several major unions, indicated that the education department and OPM “may have violated the Privacy Act and disclosed their personal information to the Doge branch without their consent.”

“The Doge branch has been granted access to the access record system, which contains some of the most sensitive data of the plaintiffs – Social Security Number, Date of Birth, Family Residence, Income and Assets, Citizenship and Disability Status – and their access to this personal information is underway,” the judge wrote. “There is no reason to believe that their access to this information will end at any time soon because the government believes that their access is appropriate.”

In another case involving Doge access to Department of Labor data, a federal judge from DC ordered Doge officials to provide documents and Testify under oath Regarding the office’s actions, the judge described it as “opacity”.

In Maryland, a federal judge issued an order Restricted immigration raids In or near a chapel owned by a group of religious organizations, lawsuits have challenged a new policy to allow such raids.

Previous policies have been in effect since the early 1990s, protecting “sensitive locations” such as immigration enforcement in unspecified churches.

this Order U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang only applies to submitted religious organizations Suit.

A federal judge in Washington released Tuesday Preliminary ban Unless the government restores federal funds directed by the Office of Management and Budget, this has caused chaos and confusion nationwide.

“Many organizations have to take desperate measures to keep things running,” wrote Judge Loren Alikhan. “The suspension provides critical plans for the public for children, the elderly and everyone in serious danger. Because the public’s interest in the trillions of dollars without arbitrary freezing will not be exaggerated, the plaintiffs are taking their burden here,” he said. She wrote.

The OMB directive was later cancelled, but the White House said at the time it was “Not revoked Federal funds are frozen. ”

Alikhan and a federal judge in Rhode Island both issued a restraining order that prevented the freeze from taking effect. Rhode Island Judge John J. McConnell has not ruled on a motion to file a preliminary injunction in such a situation.

for The second time in a weekFederal Court of Appeals Judges Panel Takes Justice Department’s Attempt to Implement President Donald Trump’s Enforcement Order Caused Restricted birthright citizenship.

The government has sought a lower court decision prohibiting the order from taking effect on appeal.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denies ruling Friday. The three-judge panel ruling said: “We joined the Ninth Circuit and found that the government did not make a ‘strong statement’ to show that its argument is “very likely to be successful.”

Trump’s order is intended to limit at least one person who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to reproductive citizenship. There are at least three judges Prevent The directive found it violated the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.