Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, reiterated on Friday that the Administration will contest an “activist judge’s” order to rehire thousands of probationary employees by six federal agencies.
As part of President Donald Trump’s drive to streamline the federal government, the workers were laid off.
The New York Times reported that U.S. district judge William Alsup stated on Thursday that the justification for mass layoffs in December was “a sham to avoid statutory obligations.”
“Fighting Back by Appealing,” Leavitt told reporters outside the White House that he would fight back with the full force of the White House Counsel’s Office and the lawyers of the federal government, who believed that the injunction was unconstitutional.
“You can’t have a district court judge of low level file an injunction usurping the executive authority of President of the United States. This is absurd. As the head of the executive branch, he has the power to hire and fire. You have lower-level judges trying to stop this president’s agenda. It’s very clear.”
Leavitt said she was “appalled’ at a stat she saw Friday morning.
In February alone, we had 15 injunctions from this administration. Leavitt stated that 14 injunctions were issued during the Biden administration’s three-year tenure. It’s clear that there are activists in our judiciary branch who want to stop this president from exercising his executive authority.
“We will fight back. Anyone who has seen President Trump and his team fight back knows how to do it. He’s been indicted almost 200 times, and now he sits in the Oval Office because these injunctions and indictments have always violated the constitution and were unfair. “They are led by partisan activists who are trying to usurp this president’s will, and we are not going to accept it.”
