Posted on 07/08/2025 1:10:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
he Supreme Court on Tuesday backed President Donald Trump’s effort to carry out mass firings and reorganizations at federal agencies, putting on hold a lower court order that had temporarily blocked the president from taking those steps without approval from Congress.
In an unsigned order, the high court said that lower courts had stopped the plans based on the administration’s general goals, rather than specific agency “reduction in force” efforts to drastically cut government employees. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a member of the court’s liberal wing, dissented.
The case stems from an executive order Trump signed in mid-February that kicked off the process of significantly reducing the size of federal agencies, an issue the president campaigned on last year. But federal departments are created by law and lower courts have repeatedly held that the White House can’t unilaterally wipe them out or leave them so short staffed that they cannot carry out their legal responsibilities.
“Because the government is likely to succeed on its argument that the executive order and memorandum are lawful … we grant the application,” the court wrote in its brief order. “We express no view on the legality of any agency RIF and reorganization plan produced or approved pursuant to the executive order and memorandum.”
The lawsuit was filed by more than a dozen unions, non-profits and local governments, who have billed it as the largest legal challenge to the Trump administration’s effort to downsize the federal workforce.
“In my view, this decision is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless,” Jackson wrote in dissent. “Lower court judges have their fingers on the pulse of what is happening on the ground and are indisputably best positioned to determine the relevant facts – including those that underlie fair assessments of the merits, harms, and equities.”
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When did we start this “for now” BS? It sounds dumb and retarded.
The plaintiffs will have to refile their cases under more specific rules................
“When did we start this “for now” BS? It sounds dumb and retarded.”
Well, as they say... THIS IS CNN!
Additional article with more details:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/supreme-court-federal-workers-layoffs.html
“Lower court judges have their fingers on the pulse of what is happening on the ground and are indisputably best positioned to determine the relevant facts – including those that underlie fair assessments of the merits, harms, and equities.”
Absolutely Hog Wash!
Lower court judges have
Lower court judges have their hands out for bribes, favors, tickets, vacations, etc.
Well guess what, Fritze? The Supreme Court said no--the President CAN unilaterally wipe them out or leave them short staffed.
The Supreme Court is the law of the land, not the lower courts.
They have lifetime jobs and federal courthouses, as a rule, are opulent palaces. They no more have their finger on the pulse of the locality than did Marie Antoinette
She talks about them like they are leftwing activists throwing bricks into windows and torching cars.
I mean figuratively they are, but socialists gonna socialist.
CNN. Gotta love their headlines!
Order here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1174_h3ci.pdf
Jackson dissents. Surprise!
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1174_h3ci.pdf#page=3
“for now” seriously, its the SUPREME COURT..but heck some commie judge in Boston can say “Hey Congress, Senate, ya know that bill you all voted for and approved, yeah I dont like it so tough cookies” so apparently we dont need a Supreme Court, a Congress, a Senate, or a Presidency, just some judges making all the decisions
Downsizing by Uncle Sam...overrules Union and any other “so called boss”.
Hog wash indeed!
Courts aren’t supposed to rule on “what’s happening on the ground”. They are supposed to rule based upon the Constitution, law, and legal precedent.
Absolutely.
But those dissenting are owned by the Left. There is no law, giving the power they pretend to justify.
Socialists? Mild
Leftists are almost all alike. They have no principals upon which they operate, no constitutional underpinning.
Hard Left = Pure Communists
Marie helped breed the backlash, the results took a long time to recover from.
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