President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. (Getty Images)
"The unions do not have the required direct stake in the Fork Directive, but are challenging a policy that affects others, specifically executive branch employees. This is not sufficient."
Additionally, the judge wrote that his court "lacks subject matter jurisdiction to consider the plaintiffs’ pleaded claims," and noted similar cases where courts were found to have lacked authority.
"Aggrieved employees can bring claims through the administrative process," O'Toole said. "That the unions themselves may be foreclosed from this administrative process does not mean that adequate judicial review is lacking."
In a statement to Fox News, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the decision "the first of many legal wins for the President."
"The Court dissolved the injunction due to a lack of standing," Leavitt said. "This goes to show that lawfare will not ultimately prevail over the will of 77 million Americans who supported President Trump and his priorities."
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U.S. District Judge George O’Toole of Massachusetts made the ruling in favor of the White House on Wednesday evening in Boston. (Reuters/Lauren Owen Lambert)
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"Courts should refrain from intruding into the President’s well-settled Article II authority to supervise and manage the federal workforce," the filing said. "Plaintiffs seek to inject this Court into federal workforce decisions made by the President and his team. The Court can avoid raising any separation of powers concerns by denying Plaintiffs’ relief and allowing the President and his team to manage the federal workforce."
Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
Andrea Margolis is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Readers can send story tips to andrea.margolis@fox.com.
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