US judge allows Trump to proceed with government employee buyout

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BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday allowed Donald Trump's administration to carry out its federal worker buyout program as the Republican president moves to overhaul and downsize the U.S. government, handing a setback to unions seeking to stop the plan.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole in Boston dissolved an earlier order he issued that had paused the program at the urging of unions representing more than 800,000 federal employees.

The unions have called the administration's "deferred resignation" offer to federal civilian employees unlawful. But O'Toole concluded that the unions lacked legal standing to challenge the program.

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It’s still illegal.

They just need to find a federal employee with standing. I would guess it shouldn’t be too hard, given Trump’s propensity for screwing workers, and Musk’s aversion to telling the truth.

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The judge dismissed this because he said the unions that sued lacked standing.

There was no comment on the merit, and it's possible other groups could file that would have standing.

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Someone is going to have to explain to me how the unions don't have standing. Don't they represent their members? If judges always ruled that they're not their members, then they'd never be able to argue on their behalf, right?

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Kind of ironic when you think about the Supreme Court ruling that that “wedding website designer” in Colorado was free to discriminate against gay folks; turns out the client she and her lawyers cited in the suit was a heterosexual man married for 15 years who denies he ever asked her to design a website, and there was little to no evidence she had ever actually designed any wedding website, and thus had suffered no damages.

But conservatives/Republicans don’t actually need standing for this SCOTUS to take their case; that only applies to everyone else.

NPR: Designer in Supreme Court ruling cited client who denies making wedding site request