Court Denies Trump Administration Request to Expedite Appeal of Workforce EO Decision

A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Thursday mostly denied a request by the Trump administration to expedite its appeal of a U.S. District Court ruling overturning the key provisions of three controversial workforce executive orders. Last month, lawyers with the Justice Department asked the court to fast-track its appeal of the August decision by U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson invalidating the core provisions of May executive orders that sought to make it easier to fire federal employees, set time limits on collective bargaining negotiations and severely restrict union employees’ ability to use official time for representational matters. The lawyers argued that the