Judge Says Trump’s FEMA Order Was Illegal

“A federal judge said in a filing Friday that a Trump administration order for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its staffing nearly in half was illegal,” CNN reports.

“In a decision that marked a critical victory for union workers in the ongoing lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in Northern California said the Department of Homeland Security ‘acted arbitrarily and capriciously’ when it revoked FEMA’s authority to renew contracts for the agency’s on-call disaster response teams. She also rebuked officials for deleting Signal messages that could have been used as evidence in the lawsuit.”