A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully in pursuing a plan to slash the Federal Emergency Management Agency's workforce roughly in half. The ruling came as part of a larger lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Government Employees and other labor groups challenging federal workforce cuts.
US District Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal retaliation for the AI company's public criticism, granting Anthropic summary judgment on First Amendment, due process and Administrative Procedure Act claims.
The Office of Personnel Management published four regulations that shift adjudication of several types of adverse action appeals from the Merit Systems Protection Board to OPM, significantly expanding OPM's authority over federal workforce management.
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to restore President Donald Trump's name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts while an appeal proceeds, following an earlier ruling that deemed the name change illegal. Workers had previously removed Trump's name from the building's facade.
The Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, marking the first time a president has attempted to remove a Fed board member. However, in a separate ruling, the Court expanded presidential authority to fire heads of other independent federal agencies.
