Why do the Bushists have it in for the judiciary? Decisions like this.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/27/AR2006022700630.html?nav=rss_politics


Defense Department Personnel System Blocked

By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 27, 2006; 2:36 PM

A federal judge today blocked the Department of Defense from implementing its new personnel system, handing the Bush administration a major setback in its attempts to streamline work rules and install pay for performance in the federal workplace.

In a 77-page decision, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the National Security Personnel System fails to ensure collective bargaining rights, does not provide an independent third-party review of labor relations decisions and would leave employees without a fair way to appeal disciplinary actions.

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Joseph W. LoBue, a lawyer for the Justice Department, told Sullivan in a hearing last month that the DOD personnel system was very different from that at Homeland Security.

"These agencies have explicit authority to do just what they did," LoBue argued.