Wednesday is Day Six since the April 17 Schedule Policy/Career reclassification baseline the paper corrected four prior editions on Monday. [1] The active challenge — PEER et al. v. Trump et al., 8:25-cv-00260 before Judge Paula Xinis in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland — has still seen no new motion on the docket since the reclassification event. [2] The paper's Tuesday standard tracked Day Five at the docket-silence reading; Day Six confirms the pattern.

The case is the one Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and co-plaintiffs — AFGE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, and AFGE Local 1923, represented by Democracy Forward and the Law Office of Jonathan Weissglass — filed as a consolidated amended complaint on March 4. [3] It challenges Executive Order 14171, issued January 20, 2025, and the OPM implementing rule that revived the Trump-era Schedule F framework under the name Schedule Policy/Career. [2][4] Roughly 50,000 federal employees are affected on the unions' count.

Six days without a post-April-17 motion is the operational fact. PEER has not issued a press release about a new motion. AFGE has not announced a temporary restraining order or a preliminary-injunction filing tied to the April 17 event. The most recent docket activity on the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse remains the March 4 consolidated amended complaint and the April 22, 2025 defendants' motion to dismiss. [2]

If the unions file before Friday the count stops. If not, the thread-tracker will read Day Seven on Thursday and the week ends with the challenge running on 2025 pleadings rather than April 17 facts.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington