Meanwhile, the RIFs case out in California continues to drag on (reductions in force, firings of government employees during/because of the shutdown, with the extremely-well-funded unions suing the Trump administration). Today, both sides filed a joint status update as ordered...

And while it is not a lengthy document, it still manages to cram plenty of the same union bitching into the relatively-brief filing. "The agencies are lying, they are hiding RIFs, they are misconstruing the court's orders," yadda yadda. Evidently the defendants (the numerous government agencies) have promised to file a buttload of additional declarations today (so far, they have not) to assuage some of the unions' concerns. Regardless of what they will file or have already filed, the unions remain adamant that the defendant agencies are continuing to hide RIFs information that they have supposedly been planning, discussing, thinking about, and/or fantasizing about in their hot tubs in violation of the Clinton-appointed lady judge's orders. The defendants blithely insist that whatever they're going to file today, November 12, should clear up any concerns. They're supposed to have yet another hearing on Friday.
As far as I've been able to determine, there has still been no movement to request a stay of any of the orders or the injunction in this case to a higher court. I don't know why. Are they just dragging their heels hoping the government will re-open making this whole discussion moot? Or are they afraid because of the massive influence of the unions, they won't get a desirable result?