Federal judge blocks Trump firing employees during shutdown

Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from serving reduction-in-force notices until the government reopens. Article ii of the Constitution gives the president authority over all members of the executive branch, so the absence of career bureaucrats during a government shutdown should not affect the authority of the chief executive. President Trump would like to permanently fire 10,000 bureaucrats during the shutdown; activist judges are doing everything they can to protect the “deep state” by thwarting him.