We don't even have to write headlines anymore; it's just fill-in-the-blank.
"District Court Judge blocks Trump Administration from..."
This time, it's to prevent the administrative branch from firing people in the government while the government is shut down.
Who coulda seen it coming?
Here's CNBC with the story.
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from firing federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown ...
'The activities that are being undertaken here are contrary to the laws,' San Francisco U.S. District Court Judge Susan Yvonne Illston told lawyers for the administration on Wednesday at a hearing where she issued the temporary restraining order.
'You can't do this in a nation of laws,' Illston said, according to NBC News.
Wait ... you're telling me a Clinton appointed San Francisco judge issued a ruling against Donald Trump because we're a "nation of laws."
This is a temporary block which will be adjudicated soon. But in the meantime, Russ Vought is already making plans to ramp up the layoffs even more.
Shortly before Illston issued her order blocking layoffs, White House Budget Director Russell Vought, during an interview on 'The Charlie Kirk Show,' said that he expected that 'north of 10,000' federal jobs would be cut because of their shutdown.
Here's a little of that interview:
And here's more of the judge's totally reasonable ranting and raving:
Illston said that the Trump administration took 'advantage of the lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off, the laws don't apply to them anymore, and they can impose the structures that they like on the government situation that they don't like,' according to NBC.
In other words ... The Trump administration followed federal procedure and left the operations of the government to the Office of Management and Budget, as prescribed by law, and actually began draining the swamp without the aid of congress.
Even Chuck Schumer knew this is what would happen, according to the law, back in March:
We'll see how long this judge's ruling is allowed to stand.
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