Legal expert 'baffled' by courts 'intruding significantly' on Trump's presidential authorit

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Legal expert 'baffled' by courts 'intruding significantly' on Trump's presidential authority
A judge extended a restraining order Monday to ban the admin's buyout offer to federal workers
By Fox News Staff Fox News
Published February 12, 2025 4:00am EST

Constitutional law attorney and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley was left bewildered after a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the Trump administration's buyout offer to federal employees. Turley told "Fox & Friends," Tuesday, that the offer is "perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president."

JONATHAN TURLEY: I think that Trump is on very solid ground with the buyout. I'm still a bit baffled by what the court is doing here. If the presidents are allowed to dictate conditions of employees coming into the office, what they're working on, all of that is part of Article II powers of the president controlling the executive branch. I'm not, even today, certain what the constitutional problem is. You've got 65,000 employees who were told, look, we'll let you stay at home and look for a job as long as you agree to resign and to give a number of months. They've agreed to it, the government's agreed to it. That seems to me to be perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president. So I think he's going to win on that.

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Congress can make decisions, they're the ones who buy ships, but it is the president that decides who's going to take the ship out and the crew. He can reduce the number of crew members. And so, there are different aspects of authority here. I think that the court is really intruding significantly in the president's authority. He's allowed to downsize, and they're allowed due process. They're allowed employment protections, but they're not allowed to permanent employment.

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[Bigun]

It's called flinging anything at hand against the wall hoping something, ANYTHING, will stick professor. Sheer desperation.

[Timber Rattler]

Why would Turley be "bewildered"?  He knows better about how these things work with liberal judges.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

It's called flinging anything at hand against the wall hoping something, ANYTHING, will stick professor. Sheer desperation.

And knowing that the chances a judge will be impeached and removed from office are virtually 0%