A federal appeals court on Wednesday freed the Trump administration to fire thousands of federal employees at 20 U.S. agencies, lifting a lower court order that had blocked the mass terminations.
In a 2-1 order, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the administration was likely to succeed against a case brought by officials from 19 states and Washington, D.C. The Democratic attorneys general had challenged the firings of federal workers with probationary status. A federal judge in Maryland issued an injunction that applied in the jurisdictions that sued.
