The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration may proceed with its plans to reduce the federal workforce and abolish federal agencies. Tens of thousands of workers in agencies like the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, State, and Treasury may lose their jobs as a result of the decision.
Unsigned and lacking a vote count, the injunction overturned a lower court’s decision that had prevented widespread layoffs. In these kinds of emergency applications, that is normal. A public dissent was written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The case serves as a crucial litmus test for President Trump’s authority to restructure the agency without consulting Congress. Technically speaking, the justices’ ruling is merely temporary and serves as guidance for the administration’s actions while the challenge to Mr. Trump’s policies is still pending. In actuality, however, it means that he can go ahead with his reorganization plans, even if judges subsequently rule that they go beyond presidential authority.
The judges found that the government is likely to prevail in its argument that President Trump’s executive order announcing plans to reduce the government was lawful in a two-paragraph ruling. The justices further stated that they had not voiced an opinion regarding the legitimacy of any particular layoffs or reorganizations carried out by the Trump administration.
It was the most recent of the Trump administration’s numerous recent successes in the Supreme Court’s review of emergency claims pertaining to the president’s attempts to drastically alter the government.
The decision came after a significant Supreme Court decision on June 27 that restricted judges’ countrywide power to halt President Trump’s actions.
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