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Welcome back to Unbiased Politics. Today is Monday, March 3rd. Let's talk about some news.

Per usual, on Mondays, we start with some news from Thursday, and then we kind of just work our way forward.

So let's talk about this court ruling, pausing mass firings within the government.

Obviously, we know the Trump administration has been issuing these mass layoffs within the

government. Following those initial layoffs, multiple lawsuits were brought by those that lost their

jobs as well as labor unions that either were or may be affected down the line. So in this particular case, a coalition of

labor unions and nonprofits filed suit against the administration arguing that the Office of

Personnel Management exceeded its legal authority when it went ahead and directed these various

agencies to fire thousands of probationary employees en masse. Specifically, they argue that this action

violated the Administrative Procedure Act and that only Congress holds the power to control

federal employment and related expenditures. Now, I said previously that multiple lawsuits have been

filed. And the reason that's important is because these rulings have been different in different jurisdictions.

And we'll talk about what that means.

But just to illustrate, a federal judge in D.C. said recently that the administration could

continue with mass firings because the plaintiffs lacked the legal right to bring the lawsuit.

But in this case, which is out of San

Francisco, the judge said the government had to temporarily stop the mass firings because they were

likely unlawful. So what happens now when we have these conflicting rulings? Well, the ruling out of

San Francisco applies to the parties that brought that lawsuits. And the ruling out of D.C. applies to the

parties that brought that lawsuit in D.C. The San Francisco ruling applies to federal employees

that belong to certain branches of the American Federation of Government Employees Union and to other

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