The suit was the broadest legal challenge brought against the administration over its moves to dismiss both probationary workers and thousands of other government employees. A federal judge Thursday denied a bid by labor unions to block the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs at federal agencies. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper indicated in his ruling that he was sympathetic to the National Treasury Employees Union and the four other unions that were seeking a restraining order to temporarily halt the layoffs, but said that federal court was not the appropriate venue for their lawsuit. “NTEU fails to establish that it…
