The Rachel Maddow Show [9PM] 3/13/2025 | ️ BREAKING NEWS Today March 13, 2025
to get to um most importantly I think um thousands of people fired by Donald
Trump are getting their jobs back today because of the first round of proverbial
fireworks that went off in a California Federal Courthouse and I just just just
got the transcript of what happened there trying all day to get it finally got it I really want to share this with you all right so um let me set the
scene Trump Administration has sent a lawyer to defend them in this case in
federal court in Northern California um but they are refusing to send any officials from the Trump Administration
to testify in this case to explain what they have done and to be questioned about it um the basis of this case is
that the Trump White House the office of personnel management in the Trump White House told federal agencies last month
essentially to fire tens of thousands of people who work for the government potentially hundreds of thousands of
people and then after the Trump White House the offic of personal management told the agencies to fire all those
people then all those people got fired and it really does not seem like that
was legal it has never seemed like that was legal that the White House would have the authority to make those kinds
of mass firings but again they won’t send anybody to testify about what exactly they
did so U this from the transcript so the the lawyer who is suing the Trump
Administration says this your honor quote what we have before the court is record evidence that conclusively
establishes that OPM directed The terminations at issue we have a very unusual circumstance where the
government has not mounted has has not attempted to say that they factually dispute that they’ve actually withdrawn
the Declaration by which they were attempting to dispute that and there’s no record evidence on the other side by
which they have disputed this fact the judge I tend to agree with you
on that and the government I believe has tried to frustrate the judge’s ability
to get at the truth of what happened here and then set forth sham declarations to a sham declaration they
withdrew it then substituted another that’s not the way it works in the US District Court the judge says quote I’m
going to talk to the government about that in a minute I had expected to have an evidentiary hearing today in which
these people would testify and if they wanted to get your people on the stand I was going to make that happen too it would be fair but
instead we have been frustrated in that the judge then says to the lawyer for
