by The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the Trump administration can proceed with its plans to cut government employees 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.
As is customary in emergency cases, the decree was unsigned and lacked a vote count, despite lifting a lower court’s decision that had prevented mass layoffs. 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.
In regards to emergency demands pertaining to the president’s attempts to drastically alter government, it was the most recent in a string of recent successes for the Trump administration before the Supreme Court.
The result came after a significant Supreme Court decision on June 27 that restricted judges’ countrywide power to halt President Trump’s actions.
The justices have issued other emergency rulings in recent weeks that have granted members of the Department of Government Efficiency access to the Social Security Administration’s sensitive records of millions of Americans, terminated a humanitarian program that was meant to grant temporary residency to over 500,000 immigrants from war-torn and politically unstable nations, and temporarily granted Mr. Trump’s request to remove the leaders of two independent agencies.
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