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.
DOJ lawyers decline to let OPM's acting director testify about mass firings
A federal judge is requiring the head of the Office of Personnel Management to testify Thursday about the mass firing of probationary employees.
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.
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 Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers at 6 agencies
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired federal employees across six agencies. The preliminary injunction issued
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 authority to direct the terminations.
Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired employees at VA, Defense Department and other agencies
A federal judge has ordered half a dozen federal agencies to “immediately” reinstate probationary employees fired last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to rapidly shrink 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 administrative leave.
'Court will have to decide the sanction': Judge orders Trump DOJ to produce OPM head for testimony in mass firings case or face his wrath as legal showdown looms
A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to produce Charles Ezell, the acting director of the ...
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 ...