A federal appeals court has directed a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s attempt to lay off federal probationary employees, stating that the blue and purple states that sued lacked standing to do so.
“We acknowledge that the abrupt and indiscriminate dismissal of the probationary employees here exacted all-too-human costs upon those affected,” Judge Harvie Wilkinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said on Sept. 8.
“But this real impact on the employees, who are not parties here, cannot govern our review.”
The decision was 2–1, with a dissent from U.S. Circuit Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin….