Seventeen former career, appointed, and elected federal and state officials — some of whom served in previous Republican administrations — told the Supreme Court it should reject the government’s request to stay a San Francisco-based judge’s preliminary injunction requiring agencies to reinstate terminated federal workers.
The officials in their April 3 amicus brief told the Court that the Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will “likely fail” in its argument that the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) “divests” the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California from its jurisdiction to hear the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) complaint filed February 23 by a coalition of labor unions and various nonprofit organizations.
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