( October 16, 2025, 1:54 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Oct. 15 granted several unions’ motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) enjoining the federal government’s reduction-in-force (RIF) of thousands of federal workers during the federal government shutdown, writing that if the unions’ allegation that impacted workers were chosen due to their perceived political affiliations is true, it “is the epitome of hasty, arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking.”...