A U.S. district judge in San Francisco, William Alsup, has reimposed an injunction against the Trump administration's mass firing of probationary federal workers at several agencies, allowing agencies to claim that individual decisions were made in the terminations. The judge ordered federal agencies to notify these workers that their dismissal was not due to poor performance but part of a broader government-wide termination. This ruling follows earlier orders to rehire approximately 16,000 federal employees who had been fired. Meanwhile, probationary workers at the Commerce Department who were recently refired have reported that their health insurance is being terminated earlier than expected. In related labor news, Infosys, the Indian IT giant, has conducted multiple rounds of layoffs, firing 240 trainees in February and another 240 trainees recently for failing internal assessments, with reports indicating a total of around 370 trainees terminated after previous layoffs. Separately, Judicial Watch has reported the removal of over 5 million ineligible voter registrations nationwide, including 735,000 names in Kentucky and nearly 1 million in New York City, following successful lawsuits. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that counting ballots arriving after Election Day is unlawful, a decision supported by Judicial Watch. Additionally, former employees of the U.S. Institute of Peace lost a bid to prevent the Trump administration from firing workers and transferring the organization's property. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against a judge appointed during the Clinton administration who had sought to control federal government hiring practices.
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