Attorney-General of New York and 19 others on Thursday night filed a lawsuit against the administration of President Donald Trump’s mass firings of some federal workers.
The lawsuit in Maryland federal court – filed jointly with California, Arizona, Colorado and other Democrat-led states, alleged that President Donald Trump illegally fired tens of thousands of federal workers.
It urged the court to reinstate those workers and stop the administration from firing additional employees illegally.
Trump faces additional lawsuits by fired federal workers and has suffered recent legal setbacks as he and Tesla CEO Elon Musk engage in a lightning campaign to root out what they describe as fraud and waste in government.
The states, in their complaint on Thursday, alleged that the Trump’s administration violated laws and regulations for laying off federal workers by failing to notify them in advance and firing them without justification.
“The Trump administration’s illegal mass firings of federal workers are a slap in the face to those who have spent their careers serving our country,” New York Attorney General Letitia said in a statement.
It could be recalled that a judge overseeing a similar case on February 27 temporarily restrained the Trump’s administration from directing the US Department of Defense and other agencies to fire new hires en masse.
And on March 6, a judge reinstated a Democratic member of the National Labour Relations Board fired by Trump.
The next day, a board that oversees the federal workforce reinstated thousands of fired workers at the US Department of Agriculture.