A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled against Democratic attorneys general who sued the Trump administration over its mass firings of probationary employees, finding the states do not have standing to bring the legal challenge.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in a 2-1 decision vacated a lower court's decision that indefinitely barred the Trump administration from terminating thousands of probationary employees in Washington, D.C., and the 19 states that sued.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, an appointee of President Reagan, wrote for the majority that to hold that standing........

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