Andrea Hsu
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Sep
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Up First from NPR · Venezuela Escalation, Shutdown Layoffs Paused, Military Pay · 16 Oct 2025
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They're not generally appealable, but that hasn't stopped the Trump administration in the past, including in another case presided over by the same judge.
So we can expect the administration to fight this pause all the way to the Supreme Court if it has to.
Already, the Supreme Court has signaled a willingness to side with the government in cases about the fate of federal employees.
NPR's Andrea Hsu.
You're welcome.
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you know, a bunch of support staff are among those being laid off, including human resources employees.
They were told to issue RIF notices to themselves.
These are staff who worked on Friday to issue the layoff notices and then were called back to work on Saturday to rescind some of those notices, the agency says, because of an error.
And when they were done with that, they lost access to their emails and their work computers.
You know, Judge Ilsen talked about this in court today and said it's clear things are being done without being thought through.
She said it's very much ready, fire, aim.
And she added this has a human cost that cannot be tolerated.
This needs to end.
We can end it today.
U.S.
District Judge Susan Ilsten said the unions are likely to prove that the Trump administration acted illegally in firing employees during the shutdown.
She ordered a pause to the layoffs already underway and a halt to any new layoffs until a second hearing on October 28th.
The government's attorney, Elizabeth Hedges, argued that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case and that the restraining order is not warranted because the plaintiffs have not demonstrated irreparable harm.
Ilston did not find those arguments compelling and instead pressed Hedges to explain why the government believes the layoffs are legal.
Hedges declined, saying she was not prepared to discuss the government's position on the merits at this time.
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