The judge adheres to drastic cuts to agencies that are carried out according to Trump Executive Order

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A federal judge will stop the Trump administration in the future after a execution of the executive regulation in February, mass distortions or large restructuring of several agencies.

The high -ranking district judge Susan Illston provided a temporary injunction on Friday evening on Friday evening on Friday evening, which was applied for by the unions of the federal government, local governments and external organizations, which rely on federal services that argued that the administration acted outside the borders of the law. The order of the judge, which lasts two weeks, blocks the approval or implementation of plans by the administration as an agency as an agency RIF and reorganization plans or arrps for the implementation of mass increases and for shrinking or eliminating the entire components of an agency. It also pauses all orders of the Department of Government Efficiency or Doge, perform programs or employees according to Trumps Executive Order and the associated guidelines.

Illston, a representative of former President Bill Clinton, who is sitting in San Francisco, said at a hearing earlier a day that the presidents were authorized to make changes to the government. When cooperation with the cooperation of the congress, the presidents must do so on a large scale of restructuring the congress.

The unions were specifically aimed at the role that Doge played in the process and wrote in court files that the initiative guided by Elon Musk acted “largely in the secret” in order to force cuts in the expenses and staff of the agency by refusing to reveal the plans “to employees, their labor representatives, the public or the congress”. The office for management and household and the Office for Personnel Administration-Zwei agencies that, for the mission of Dogy, of central importance, a common guideline, that agencies submit the reduction and reorganization plans in two phases that are due in mid-March and mid-April, and omb corresponds to the final approval of the layoff plans according to court files.

Illston's command is one of Trump's most far -reaching legal setbacks, and Doge has confronted her efforts to drastically win the German bureaucracy. In the entire federal government, the administration has to reduce RIFS – or a reduction in violence – that would terminate tens of thousands of employees and encrypt the entire agency office.

The case in front of Illston could soon go to the Supreme Court, since the Ministry of Justice stated that he would like to appeal it quickly – although the judge contested an application for a procedural maneuver from a doj lawyer, which would make it easier for the administration to appeal immediately.

In a 42-page statement on Friday evening, Illston said: “No law gives opm, omb or doge the authority to guide other federal authorities to large-scale appointments, restructuring or elimination of itself.”

While she will take a closer look at the justification of the lawsuit in the coming weeks, she found that “it is necessary to temporarily implement these plans because they flow out of probable illegal guidelines.”

The order covers important reductions in more than a dozen agencies, including the departments for agriculture, trade, energy, work, finance, state, health and human services, veteran affairs and the environmental protection authority.

In addition, the administration must hand over the reduction plans by Tuesday and inform the judge on Tuesday about their efforts to carry out their arrangement.

In a statement, the challengers said that they were “satisfied with the current decision of the court to pause these harmful actions during our case.”

“With every step this president takes, we keep him accountable in court and see how judges of all stripes recognize and defend the rule of law,” said Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of Democracy Forward, who represents the challengers.

CNN turned to the White House to get a comment.

The lawyer of Doj, Eric Hamilton, argued on Friday that the case of the unions suffered from a series of procedural errors, including a delay in the application, since the order in question was signed on February 11.

Danielle Leonard, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, countered that every delay was the guilt of the government of being refused with its plans, and argued that the administration “tried to insulate an” rather deeply illegal instructions “.

The judge stated that some senators had asked the government to present their dismissal plans. She asked the Ministry of Justice whether the administration replied to this request. Hamilton refused to answer and argued that it was irrelevant in the case.

This story has been updated with additional details.

Tami Luhby from CNN contributed to this report.