For those of you expecting to hear about the Russian lawsuit from a guy

claiming Apple made him turn gay, that's for later.

Today, President Trump issued new orders last year to reform federal unions, which have a lot

of power over how governments run. He limited the grievance unions could file streamline

collective bargaining negotiations and reduced the hours that union members could spend doing

union work instead of their real jobs. So the unions were furious. They claimed that Trump's

executive orders wiped out their collective bargaining rights. They got a sympathetic

federal judge to issue an injunction. From there, the case went to a three-judge panel on a

DC circuit court of appeals, which ruled in favor of President Trump. The unions asked for a

re-hearing by the full court, which they got. And last Wednesday, the full DC court of appeals

sided with President Trump. This is the first time ever that government unions have had their

power curtailed. The effect was immediate in real life. The day after the unions lost in court,

the American Federation of Government employees settled their contract dispute with the Social

Security Administration. They saw the writing on the wall that contract was the best they were

going to get before Trump's reforms kick in. Now, this is not going to generate headlines in a

drive-by media, but it is a big deal inside the beltway so big that I wouldn't be surprised if

Democrats added it to their phony impeachment claims against President Trump.