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

The appeals court’s majority said the union had failed to show that it would suffer the type of irreparable harm that would justify the preliminary injunction.

The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse that houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in Washington, on July 22, 2014. AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

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 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.