The Trump administration has sought special dispensation to imminently cut staff at State, but employees won a—potentially ...

The Trump administration has argued that the State Department is bloated and layoffs are necessary. The court found that’s ...

A federal judge in California on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. State Department from implementing an agency-wide ...

The government had argued that the State Department's planned reorganization fell outside the scope of a judge's order that ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted the U.S. State Departments plan to lay off nearly 2,000 employees as part of a ...

In the ruling, Judge Matthew J. Maddox of the Federal District Court in Maryland said that the law only allowed Mr. Trump to ...

A federal judge temporarily halted the U.S. State Department's reorganization plan, aimed at laying off nearly 2,000 ...

But Danielle Leonard, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, countered that State Department documents and statements regarding the planned layoffs specifically reference orders from the White House.