Judge impedes our security

A federal judge has blocked new rules at the Department of Homeland Security designed to allow flexibility in hiring, firing and deploying employees. The rules were intended to provide the agency with authority to make decisions based on the security needs of the nation rather than civil service or union rules. The judge has decided that the right of union employees to a fat paycheck is more important than our right to life.

The Department of Homeland Security, after more than two years of work on new workplace rules, may have to scrap the plan after a federal judge questioned whether it protects union and employee rights.

The rules were scheduled to begin today but were blocked by U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer in a ruling released Friday night.