Over the last several months, the administration has sought to shrink the federal government by slashing the federal workforce and by dismantling entire agencies. Those efforts have repeatedly run aground in the courts before judges appointed by presidents of both parties (including by President Trump himself).

With the adults long since dismissed and Congress missing in action, resistance to this Trump power grab could come from an unlikely source: federal judges.

The Trump 2.0 approach to deregulation has involved “across-the-board, overarching efforts to kill lots of regulations in one fell swoop,” Richard Revesz, who served as the head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Biden

Federal employees seeking to challenge the Trump Administration’s unprecedented efforts to dismantle federal agencies and decimate the civil service have faced a dilemma. The federal Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) generally permits employees to contest serious adverse personnel actions only before an

Since January, Project 2025 has been (to the extent anything is) the Trump White House’s blueprint for policymaking. A Project 2025 tracker maintained jointly by two nonprofits, the Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact, checks off 31 recommendations just at OMB, which

The Trump Administration, using a range of means, has sought to decimate the federal civil service. That has included efforts to fire probationary employees, initiate large-scale reductions in force at multiple agencies, and place large groups of employees on administrative leave. At the same