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“Congress has given the authority to hire and fire to the agencies themselves. The Department of Defense, for example, has statutory authority to hire and fire,” Alsup said from the bench as he handed down the ruling Thursday evening in San Francisco federal court. “The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency. They can hire and fire their own employees.”
Here's some food for thought. Everyone of those employees not only gets their jobs back, but with back pay, and lost benefits.
And Elon Musk isn't a legitimate government employee. He has no immunity whatsoever from civil suit. Everyone of those employees should file separate suits for $100 million in compensatory, and $1 billion in punitive damages, and bankrupt his ass. There is no shortage of jurors in the country that would rule in their favor.

Federal Judge has just ruled that the mass firings are likely illegal and has put them on hold!
Hallelujah. Some sanity perhaps? Federal Judge William Alsup has declared that the OPM has no right to fire people at other agencies. He says they can fire their own workers, period, but not DOD, Park Service, etc. In this ruling, Alsup says, “Congress...
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Here's some food for thought. Everyone of those employees not only gets their jobs back, but with back pay, and lost benefits.
And Elon Musk isn't a legitimate government employee. He has no immunity whatsoever from civil suit. Everyone of those employees should file separate suits for $100 million in compensatory, and $1 billion in punitive damages, and bankrupt his ass. There is no shortage of jurors in the country that would rule in their favor.