'Reamed out!' MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in awe after judge 'sliced and diced' Trump agency

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow devoured with glee the latest legal blow to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the federal workforce on Thursday, before following the judge’s lead and delivering a tongue-lashing of her own.

Maddow devoted the opening minutes of her primetime show to the courtroom spectacle that unfolded Thursday, when U.S. District Judge William Alsup eviscerated Trump administration attorneys who attempted to justify the mass firings of employees in their probationary period.

The judge made clear he suspected the attorneys of lying and supplying the court “sham” documents, and then ruled against the administration in an order that directed probationary employees from the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, and Treasury to be reinstated.

“And that is how thousands of people who work in our government – who Donald Trump and his top campaign donor tried to fire – that is how thousands of Americans got their jobs back today at the VA, at USDA, at the Defense Department, at the Department of Energy, at the Department of Interior, which includes the National Park Service, at the Treasury Department, which of course includes the IRS,” Maddow said as she praised the legal development.

But the ruling opening up more than reinstatement of the employees, the MSNBC host told viewers.

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“After getting reamed out like that and losing so resoundingly in court, I mean, they didn't just have what they've done already reversed by a judge, it wasn't just that thousands of people got their jobs back today.”

She continued: “The court ruling also means that the Office of Personnel Management, which they've been using as like the central office for all this stuff that DOGE has been doing right, the Office of Personnel Management…at the White House can no longer tell anyone anything about anybody who should be fired for any reason from any part of the U.S. government. This is the order.”

She then slammed OPM spokesperson McLaurine Pinover over recent reports detailing how she used her government office as a backdrop for her fashion influencer videos.

“After a government agency gets sliced and diced and julienned like that,” Maddow said, “under normal circumstances, you’d expect the agency in question to put out a statement in response.”

But that was not the case, she told viewers, as she referenced the reporting into her fashion videos.

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