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“That’s a sham.”
After a heated hearing in a California district court this morning, Judge William Alsup ruled that the Trump administration must offer to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were fired as part of the DOGE cuts. There were a lot of things that irked the judge, though most predictably, he did not like that an Office of Personnel Management official ghosted the court after being ordered to testify. (“I’m getting mad,” the judge said.)
Longtime Verge readers will recognize Alsup as the unforgivingly exact judge in cases like Oracle v. Google and Waymo v. Uber, a hobbyist coder who studied engineering at Mississippi State.
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