Posted on 06/02/2025 12:17:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds.
The high court filing came after an appeals court refused to freeze a California-based judge’s order halting the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.
By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the downsizing could have broader effects, including on the nation’s food-safety system and health care for veterans.
In her ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston found that Trump’s administration needs congressional approval to make sizable reductions to the federal workforce.
The administration initially asked the justices to step in last month, but withdrew its appeal for technical, legal reasons. The latest filing is one in a series of emergency appeals arguing federal judges had overstepped their authority.
Illston’s order “rests on the indefensible premise that the President needs explicit statutory authorization from Congress to exercise his core Article II authority to superintend the internal personnel decisions of the Executive Branch,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the new appeal.
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Trump is pushing the envelope; I heard he just got the court to overrule the lower court’s judge who said he couldn’t go to the White House bathrooms without his permission.
I hear the judge is still debating moving his bed time from 9 pm to 10 pm.
Ha.
Trump is up doing things except for around 4 hours of sleep.
Nearly the entire Trump administration being run by judicial decisions. NOT what I voted for.
What if Trump from the very beginning ignored these lower court rulings, all two hundred of them? Not sure if that would be such a great strategy either. Trump is letting the courts completely fail first, before he takes Executive action. He can then say he gave the courts every opportunity to do the right thing and they failed. Politically, it’s better. Let the courts completely delegitimize themselves first.
Too bad the rest of the administration is NOT keeping up the pace.
Trump is up doing things except for around 4 hours of sleep.
They could brand him as a dictator and half the population would agree.
Trump’s actions are judged by “we the people” and how WE feel about his actions are expressed at election time. The judicial branch is currently robbing all citizens of their Constitutional right to express and implement their will and intentions GUARANTEED to us in Article IV, Section 4. By allowing this to continue, Trump is as guilty as they are. This issue MUST be dealt with.
The decision was not within the Article III judicial power.
Scotus should spend half an hour most on this nonsense.
It would also create a bunch of new plaintiffs, government workers, government contractors, and local and state governments. It would give them clear legal avenues for fighting The President’s policies and of course, impeachments where even rinos would have an excuse to vote for removal.
Totally agree except for the part about blaming Trump. We are currently in the middle of a communist revolution in America. Trump needs to proceed carefully. He will not let the communist courts derail his presidency.
For people wondering about the deficit.
Trump swore an oath to obey and protect the Constitution from ALL enemies, foreign and domestic. He must explain to the nation what Article IV, Section 4 means to them and how critical enforcing it is to keeping the power of defining the future in the hands of we the people. This is NOT about him. It is about us as a free nation.
“By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the downsizing could have broader effects, including on the nation’s food-safety system and health care for veterans.”
So now judges are fortune tellers. The question before the judges should be whether Trump (or any other president) acted within his authority when reducing the workforce of federal agencies. Not on the possible outcome of such reduction. That would be a legal challenge for another day if it was shown such effects were a result.
What precisely do you want him to do? The Republican Congress refuses to act. SCOTUS refuses to act. You do realize that the entire government is looking to take Trump down.
You want him to give a speech and ignore the judiciary. I wonder how Congress would respond. They would probably respond with threats of impeachment and by shutting down Trump’s legislative agenda.
Other than Trump, the U.S. government has become a lawless, corrupt, and traitorous. They have sold out their own country. The way I see it Trump has two choices try to work within the system or go full on Pinochet. I’m not opposed to the Pinochet idea.
What concrete steps would you recommend?
Works for me.
However, it will require control of military and police forces which Trump does not yet appear to have. Appearances matter in such things.
Since they don’t respect the “system” as defined and are using methodology outside the boundaries of legitimate Constitutional governance, I say there is no choice but to go full Pinochet. There simply is no “system” to work in as they have hijacked it and slanted it totally in their favor. In Butler, he said “Fight!”. It’s time to get in on.
I know but those hours seem like something a judge would come up with
This is their strategy. Lawfare for the rest of his term.
Or if Trump acts like Biden, then they'll accuse him of being a dictator.
With lawfare, they're just trying to run the clock out.
RINOs in Congress are following the same playbook they used in Trump's first term.
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