"In a 38-page order, Alsup wrote that the terminations, dating back to February, were unlawful. But he stopped short of requiring the government to reinstate workers. It was clear to him, he explained, that the Supreme Court would overrule such relief given recent decisions the court had issued on related matters. He also wrote that too much time had passed."
""Immediately, I would return to my job, as would many, many others," she says. "We loved our jobs. We worked really hard to be there. And a lot of us have found short-term or other work to fill that gap. But a lot of us have also taken pay cuts to do so and really have suffered a lot of damage to our careers."
U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the mass terminations of probationary federal employees were unlawful, noting the firings dated back to February. Alsup declined to order reinstatement, citing recent Supreme Court decisions likely to overrule such relief and stressing that too much time had passed. The judge wrote that many terminated probationary employees had moved on and would be unwilling or unable to return. Affected workers report career damage, pay cuts, and readiness to return to their previous posts. Supreme Court shadow-docket decisions have constrained remedies by expanding presidential authority over executive-branch personnel.
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