Judge says Trump administration memos directing mass firings were illegal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Alsup, appointed by President Bill Clinton, said many agency heads had indicated publicly and in internal notes to staff that they had taken the office's memos as an order.
42% : Alsup's ruling came in a lawsuit filed by several labor unions, including the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Government Employees, contesting the firings of thousands of probationary workers.
38% : "These are rank-and-file workers who joined the federal government to make a difference in their communities, only to be suddenly terminated due to this administration's disdain for federal employees and desire to privatize their work," Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in a statement.

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