A federal appeals court on Monday let stand a lower court’s ruling to reinstate thousands of probationary federal employees across six federal agencies who were laid off by the Trump administration, The Hill reported.
In a 2-1 decision, the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit declined to grant the Trump administration’s request for an administrative stay of Judge William Alsup’s ruling last week ordering the Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy and Interior departments to reinstate probationary employees who he said were improperly fired.
“Given that the district court found that the employees were wrongfully terminated and ordered an immediate return to the status quo ante, an administrative stay of the district court’s order would not preserve the status quo. It would do just the opposite — it would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head,” the 9th Circuit wrote on Monday.
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