Supreme Court allows Trump plan to cut federal workforce – Washington Examiner
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce the federal workforce, potentially resulting in hundreds of thousands of federal employee layoffs. The Court overturned a lower court’s temporary block on the cuts, which were being carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency.The ruling focused on an executive order and a directive for agencies to implement job reductions, rather than specific job cuts. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, criticizing the majority for hastily approving what she viewed as legally questionable emergency actions by the Trump administration. This decision is part of a broader pattern of the Trump administration frequently seeking expedited relief from the Supreme Court to advance its government restructuring efforts.
Supreme Court allows Trump plan to cut federal workforce
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed President Donald Trump a victory by backing his plans to cut the federal workforce, a move that could lead to hundreds of thousands of firings for federal employees.
The justices overturned a lower court order that temporarily stalled the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency. While the order was unsigned, it states that no specific job cuts were at issue before them in the case, only an executive order issued by Trump and an administrative directive for agencies to engage in job reductions.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, dissented from the majority, hitting out against her colleagues for demonstrating “enthusiasm for greenlighting this president’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture.”
The decision came as a result of one of many emergency applications filed by the Trump administration, which has turned frequently to the high court’s mechanism for expedited relief, where the case is not decided on the merits. That process has so far proven fruitful for Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal government so far this year.
In just the first 20 weeks of this term, the Trump administration filed 19 emergency applications — equal to the number filed by the Biden administration across four years and far surpassing the eight filed during both Bush and Obama’s administrations combined.
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Jackson’s rebuke follows one issued by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, last week when the Supreme Court cleared the way for a group of eight criminal illegal immigrants to be deported to South Sudan.
Sotomayor dissented in that July 3 decision, which also lacked a clear explanation by the majority, saying it “clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial.”
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