Appeals Court Keeps In Place a Pause on DJT’s Mass Firings

A three judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals kept in place federal District Court Judge Susan Illston’s ruling that Donald Trump must have Congressional authorization to carry out a wholesale reorganization of the federal government and cannot do it by executive order.

The panel’s decision was a two-to-one vote and said Trump’s executive order for the mass firings involved “far exceeds the President’s supervisory powers under the Constitution.” The panel said plaintiffs challenging Trump’s firings as illegal may succeed on the merits, and the government did not present appropriate justification for emergency intervention.

The government already asked the Supreme Court to intervene, and although it did not, the case is likely to end up there.

Trump’s desired mass firings remain paused while the case makes its way through the courts.

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