States Urge Full Fourth Cir. to Hear Fired Federal Workers Case

A full federal appeals court should consider claims seeking to overturn the Trump administration’s firing of thousands of federal workers across 20 agencies, a group of state attorneys general said.

Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday for en banc rehearing on whether courts have jurisdiction to intervene in the firings.

The Trump administration didn’t give states required notice before it fired the workers earlier this year, the states said in the request. That made it difficult for them to prepare unemployment checks and disrupted local programs that depend on ...