“In the context of this case, disclosure of OSHA records to the leader of multiple companies with ongoing OSHA investigations presents clear risks both to workers and to the integrity of OSHA’s enforcement efforts,” the lawsuit says.
Labor unions criticized the short, nine-day resignation window provided to federal employees, with the lawsuit calling the original deadline “an arbitrary date […] selected to put maximum pressure on the federal workforce so that they would accept the offer, in many cases contrary to federal agency and federal employee interests.”
“After all, as long as the sensitive data of Plaintiffs’ members remains accessible to Mr. Musk and other members of DOGE, the more opportunity there is for that data to be disclosed to still more unauthorized parties, either accidentally or deliberately,” the lawsuit alleges.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the pause is intended to block funding for programs that the Trump administration opposes, including programs related to DEI and the Green New Deal.
“CBS may be reaching a legal settlement with Trump because he didn’t like how a campaign interview with Kamala was edited. Really?” Sanders wrote on Twitter. “If CBS caves, the belief that we have an independent media protected by the First Amendment is undermined.”
“[AG Rokita] stated he talked to Sheriff Redman multiple times, which is false,” the St. Joseph County’s Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “The Sheriff has never even spoken to Todd Rokita. He stated that we do not cooperate with ICE, which is false. We regularly communicate with ICE. When the jail receives a detainer or request from ICE, staff promptly informs immigration officials when that individual will be released on their criminal charges for detainment by ICE.”
“Presidents are powerful,” New Jersey Attorney General Platkin said, “but he is not a king.”
“There was a perfectly good reason nobody saw [Trump’s victory] coming: because a three-point lead for Harris in deep-red Iowa was not reality,” Trump’s lawsuit alleges. “It was election-interfering fiction.”
Although U.S. law gives the federal government the authority to make determinations about immigrants’ legal presence, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor said that it does not “[allow] the agency to circumvent congressional authority and redefine the term ‘lawfully present.’”
“We’ve been preparing for a mass detention and deportation agenda for the last nine months,” said A.C.L.U. senior staff attorney Kyle Virgien. “Now that Trump is the president-elect, it’s become apparent that this is a fight that we’re going to need to have.”