US Appeals Court Lifts Block on Trump Executive Order Targeting Federal Union

A federal appeals court on May 17 allowed the Trump administration to go through with its plan to strip collective bargaining by workers at more than a dozen federal agencies. In a 2–1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the Trump administration on arguments that its directive is warranted on national security grounds, overturning a lower court judge’s ruling to block the administration. That injunction, issued by U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman, froze the administration’s executive order targeting collective bargaining after siding with National Treasury Employees Union, which filed the lawsuit....