The Supreme Court on July 8 lifted a lower court order that prevented the Trump administration from carrying out job cuts en masse and restructuring federal agencies.
The new ruling lifts U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s May 22 order that temporarily stopped large-scale layoffs known as reductions in force from moving forward while the litigation continues in the lower courts.
The case is Trump v. American Federation of Government Employees.
The American Federation of Government Employees has said the planned reorganization of the federal government will lead to “hundreds of thousands of federal employees” losing their jobs.
The Supreme Court said in an unsigned order that the district court blocked the government’s actions based on the lower court’s view that President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14210 and a memorandum issued by the Office of Management and Budget were “unlawful.”…
Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Federal Layoffs
