 President Donald Trump signed three executive orders designed to enforce merit-system principles in the civil service and claimed it was intended to improve efficiency, transparency, and accountability in the federal government.However, after reviewing the executive orders in detail, U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily struck down a majority of Trump's executive orders, ruling that his executive orders were an attempt to weaken federal labor unions representing federal employees.Judge Jackson's opinion was reversed by the DC Circuit.