Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with large-scale government agency staff cuts, reorganizations

The Supreme Court connected Tuesday said it volition let the Trump medication to proceed with large-scale reductions successful unit astatine galore national authorities agencies arsenic opponents proceed to question to artifact those efforts successful lower-court proceedings.

The Supreme Court's determination is not the latest connection connected the legality of the cutbacks, which are being challenged successful a suit filed by a radical of unions representing authorities workers, arsenic good arsenic by a fistful of U.S. cities and counties.

The precocious tribunal is apt to see that contented astatine a aboriginal date.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone 1 of the court's 9 members to dissent from the ruling Tuesday, which stayed an injunction blocking the alleged reductions successful unit astatine 19 national agencies that was issued successful May by a national territory tribunal justice successful California.

"In my view, this was the incorrect determination astatine the incorrect moment, particularly fixed what small this Court knows astir what is really happening connected the ground," Jackson wrote successful her dissent.

"This lawsuit is astir whether that enactment amounts to a structural overhaul that usurps Congress's policymaking prerogatives — and it is hard to ideate deciding that question successful immoderate meaningful way after those changes person happened," she wrote.

"Yet, for immoderate reason, this Court sees acceptable to measurement successful present and merchandise the President's wrecking shot astatine the outset of this litigation."

President Donald Trump successful February issued an enforcement bid directing national agencies to "promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale simplification successful unit (RIFs), accordant with applicable law."

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who is representing the Trump administration, successful a filing astatine the Supreme Court, wrote that Trump's "order rested connected steadfast ineligible footing and followed a agelong humanities tradition."

"For astatine slightest astir 150 years, Congress has recognized the Executive Branch's authorization to transportation retired reductions successful its workforce arsenic the request arises, taxable to statutory preferences for seasoned presumption and different factors," Sauer wrote.

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