More butchering of the Trump Administration by this judge. He points out the ridiculous lies of Trump's attorneys. --
The Trump administration attorneys also claimed in court papers that OPM had not ordered federal agencies to fire specific employees and did not create a “mass termination program” but rather a “focused review” process. Alsup was skeptical of that argument; multiple agency officials — from the Defense and Agriculture departments, the IRS, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Science Foundation — have said OPM ordered them to fire probationary workers, according to court records.
“How could so much of the workforce be amputated, suddenly, overnight? It’s so irregular and so widespread and so aberrant in the history of our country. How could this all happen with each agency deciding on its own to do something so aberrational?” said Alsup, who was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1999. “I don’t believe it.”