Judge Orders Reinstatement of Fired Federal Employees

A federal judge has ruled that thousands of federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be reinstated within a week, calling the mass terminations unlawful. The ruling challenges the administration’s broad efforts to reshape the federal workforce, particularly targeting probationary employees. The White House is pushing back, vowing to appeal. At the heart of the case is a larger question: where does the executive branch’s authority end, and what safeguards exist to protect public employees from politically motivated dismissals?